Handsome, young (30) Russian Navy Lieut. Nikolai Gregorovich Redin sat, strolled, fidgeted. A few hundred feet away in Seattle's Federal Building a jury was weighing his acts, his motives, sorting and sifting the thousands of words of evidence, judging him by his looks, his actions. Like many a U.S. citizen before him, Nikolai Redin knew then the excruciating suspense of waiting for a jury to come in,
What would those quiet-eyed men and those neatly dressed American housewives believe of a Russian these days? Would they, as folks did in Russia, believe that any man accused by the Government was automatically...