Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honoring you in absentia, we break a tradition as old as Kenyan College itself. We do this sadly yet willingly, since you have been deprived of the right to travel by men who are afraid of your steady pressure upon the conscience of both your countrymen and all civilized...
...military transport roared off the Reghaia's airstrip, taking the old soldier for the last time from the country for which Raoul Salan, after 44 years of fighting France's enemies, had himself become an enemy of France. Though he is already under sentence of death in absentia, by French law Salan must stand trial. Like ex-General Edmond Jouhaud, Salan's chief lieutenant who was captured a month ago, he is certain to be sentenced to the guillotine, barring last-minute clemency by De Gaulle...
...Regrets. Jouhaud was already condemned to death in absentia for his leading role in last April's "generals' putsch" in Algiers. But under French law such a sentence cannot be carried out without retrial. Additionally, last week, Jouhaud faced the tribunal accused of being a leader and member of the S.A.O., a "revolutionary organization aimed at overthrowing the government...
...F.L.N. agrees not to publish a white paper on French atrocities or to stage any "Nurnberg Trial" of Frenchmen, either in person or in absentia...
...Salan's real enemy is not the F.L.N. It is President Charles de Gaulle. Both, in their own way, are playing for their lives. Salan has already been condemned to death in absentia for his part in the Revolt of the Generals. De Gaulle has already escaped one S.A.O. assassination attempt. When it failed, he is reported to have remarked with a trace of regret, "Une belle sortie [a nice exit]." At 71, what De Gaulle dreads more than loss of life is loss of reputation, a downgrading of his place in history...