Since his arrest last January, Paul H. Frampton, a professor of physics and astronomy, has been detained in Argentina, at first in prison and later under house arrest at a friend’s apartment in Buenos Aires. He was sentenced to four years and eight months of confinement, which he also expects to serve under house arrest. Mr. Frampton maintains his innocence. He has previously complained that the university was withholding his pay and now worries that it will fire him.





