Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this week's cover is an outlaw, condemned to death in absentia by France. It is no light matter for TIME to give General Salan's face such prominence...
Fidel Castro demands the return of the Harvard spiders to Cuba. "They belong to the people of Cuba. We have expropriated them in absentia," Castro insists. He appeals to the UN, which regrets that it has no neutral observers left to send him... 146 Young Americans for Freedom depart Cambridge to fight in the Katangan army. "We are not to be confused with the Peace Corps," their leader explains. "We are not going to help Katanga, we're going to fight...
...accept Algerian independence. As a further symptom of army disease, 1,300 officers have handed in their resignations. Though the government found it almost impossible to gather evidence against officers who took part in the April 1961 revolt, eleven of its top generals were condemned to death in absentia or to prison terms. The chief of staff, General Paul Ely, resigned last year in open disagreement with De Gaulle, and his successor, General Jean Olié, resigned last month, pleading ill health. For his new chief, De Gaulle for the first time picked an air force officer, General Andr...
...name outright the Secret Army Organization, the fanatical underground that is fighting to keep Algeria French. Said he at one point: "S.A.O.? I don't know them." Yet the S.A.O. was everywhere making its power evident. In Algeria, its chief, Raoul Salan-under sentence of death in absentia -emerged from hiding for a secret TV interview with a CBS newsman. Appearing on film with a newly grown mustache, his white hair dyed black, ex-General Salan boasted that all of Algeria's population was with him: "The Moslems have hidden me. I walked about as I wished...
Last week the French police suddenly tossed El Campesino into jail. Almost at once, Spanish security police returned the compliment by rounding up 17 anti-Gaullist Frenchmen. Among them: Pierre Lagaillarde and his crony, Café Owner Joseph Ortiz, who has been condemned to death in absentia for his part in the barricades revolt, as well as a handful of ex-colonels involved in the generals' Putsch...