Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pasternak Honored In Absentia...
...Vichy official. The accused: Jacques Guérard, once a brilliant young climber in French bureaucracy, who became Traitor Laval's righthand man, served as his secretary-general from 1942-44. He escaped to Spain ahead of the Allied armies, was condemned to death in absentia. Three years ago he surrendered voluntarily to stand trial for treason. This time the High Court judges were calm, judicially correct members of the French Parliament. Charged with negotiating a German mission in Dakar, and with trying to get German arms for use against the Maquis, Guérard, now 60, declared that...
...Eighteen Csepel Island steel plant workers, accused of "counterrevolution" and murder. Five of them had escaped to the West and were being tried in absentia. The principal defendant, Karoly Szente, a 51-year-old locksmith, startled the court by repudiating his confession. His 19-year-old son did the same...
Nine arch conspirators-five of them sentenced to death in absentia by French military courts-lined up self-consciously in a room in Tunis and let photographers take their pictures. They were the leaders of Algeria's National Liberation Front. With Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba offering them physical sanctuary and diplomatic sponsorship before the world, the FLN was trying to assume the robes of respectability. Last fortnight the FLN leaders invited French journalists in for coffee, showed them round their newly expanded headquarters, and announced that three of their members would leave shortly for New York (traveling...
...play is a satire, partly poetic, about greed and worshippers of the Golden Calf. A group of men want to drill for oil right under Paris in order to wage a destructive war. The countess and her cohorts find a way of trying them in absentia by proxy, and she then "exterminates" them (how I will not reveal...