The Atlanta Journal and Constitution · Atlanta, Georgia · 7 November 1982
CP-1982-040
American became unlikely prisoner of PLO
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36-A.. The Atlanta Journal AND CONSTITLTION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1982....
By Thomas Noland Special to The Journal-Constitution PARIS - He is not the kind of Ameri- can you would pick for the role: prisoner of the Palestine Liberation Organization, beaten on the soles of his feet with insu- lated electric cable, threatened with a pis- tol at his temple by a prison guard and spending hours huddied in the corner of his cell as Israeli bombs flattened the part of west Beirut directly above his head.
Rather than Kenneth Timmerman, a dreamy 28-year-old novelist who lives in a cozy book-filled apartment here, you would expect someone.. big Someone brash. Timmerman is tall and thin, almost delicate. He wears wire-rimmed glasses and open-necked shirts, cardigan sweaters and jeans.
For five years he lived the life you read about in genial memoirs of literary expatriates: He published a magazine of
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"American became unlikely prisoner of PLO," The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 7 November 1982. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1982-040. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1982-040
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