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Prison author sentenced
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NEW YORK : —Jailhouse au
thor Jack Henry Abbott, who
has spent most of his adult life
behind bars, was sentenced
Thursday as a persistent felony
offender to 15 years to life in
prison for the stabbing death of
a newly wed waiter.
State Supreme Court Justice
Irving Lang imposed the sent
ence for the slaying of waiter
Richard Adan, 22.
In addition, Abbott will first
have to serve up to eight years in
prison on unrelated federal and
Utah state criminal charges.
Thus, Abbott, 38, faces 23 years
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Abbott, the literary
of author Norman Mailer, was
convicted in January of man
slaughter in Adan’s fatal stab
bing outside a lower Manhattan
restaurant July 18.
The manslaughter charge
has a prison term of 12'A to 25
years but Lang decided Abbott
was a persistent violent felony
offender. Thus, he could be
sentenced to a maximum term
of 25 years to life.
Lang called Abbott’s man
slaughter conviction “an indict
ment of a prison system that
brutalizes rather than rehabili
tates.”
But, he said he could not
ignore Abbott’s violent back
ground and past conduct in im
posing the sentence.
Mailer was in the courtroom
for the sentencing.
Abbott, the author of a critic
ally acclaimed prison diary, “In
the Belly of the Beast,” refused
to leave his cell at Rikers Island
jail last month for a court hear
ing in his case.
Lang threatened to issue a
court order to force Abbott to
appear Thursday. Abbott’s
lawyer said Wednesday he ex
pected his client to voluntarily
appear in court for sentencing.
The prosecution, citing two of
Abbott’s previous felony convic
tions, asked Lang to declare him
a persistent violent offender.
Abbott was convicted of bank
robbery in 1971 and of assault
with a deadly weapon of a con
vict in I9f)7. Abbott stabbed
f ellow inmate to death in a Utah
prison.
Since age 12, Abbott has been
out of jail only 9‘/i months. Mail
er, who was impressed by
Abbott’s writing, nelped the
convict obtain release from a
Utah federal prison and gave
him a job as a literary researcher
in New York.
Abbott was on parole and was
living at a federally f unded hall
way nouse in lower Manhattan,
near the restaurant where the
slaying occurred.
Adan and Abbott became in
volved in an argument about the
use of an employee rest room.
The two men stepped outside
the restaurant and Abbott stab
bed and killed Adan moments
later, officials said.
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NEVV YORK — Farmers
someday may use orange, lemon
and grapefruit seeds against in
sects.
Dr. Isao Kubo of the Univer
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of bollworm and armyworm
would not feed on cotton leaves
tainted with limonoids when un
treated leaves were available.
When there was no choice,
they munched on leaves dosed
with limonoids. That diet
curbed growth. The results were
dwarf versions of full-grown in
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In tests to date, limonoid
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beyond just stunting grot#
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