Fed Up

The restless urge to seek a new life in a new land seemed to be catching.

One day last week, a thin, 45-year-old Negro walked into the U.S. consulate in Prague. He dropped his passport (No. 206,501) on the reception desk, wheeled abruptly and left the building. Attached to the passport was a letter. It read: "I, James Miller Robinson . . . renounce my citizenship to the United States of America." Defiantly, Robinson later told reporters : "I'd rather die than go home and shine shoes."

When he was last at home on Long Island, blond, blue-eyed Dan McCarthy couldn't forget the wonderful time he had as a G.I. in Germany. He liked to sit up late with his memories, listening to German records and sipping wine by candlelight. In March, he sailed for Europe on the S.S. America. At the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt he said he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship. "I cry inside when I think about America," Dan confessed, "I'm homesick for my mother and the subways of New York, but my destiny lies here." A U.S. Military Government court in Frankfort this week sentenced McCarthy to eight months in prison for entering Germany illegally. McCarthy, surprised at the sentence, said he would appeal.

Soviet Air Force Lieutenant Ilya Muchets was looking for his destiny in the opposite direction. After grazing a nearby mountain, the 26-year-old pilot crashed his single-engined fighter on the runway at Stockholm's Soedertoern Military Airport. He said that he was "just fed up with Russia."

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