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...Including Curcio, 15 are in custody; the others are being tried in absentia...
...speculate in commodities futures. Though no depositors lost money on the deals, Erdman, as the bank's president, was clapped in a Basel jail along with six other officers. Ten months later he was permitted to post bail, and left Switzerland-presumably forever. He was later tried in absentia and given an eight-year prison sentence that he faces if he ever returns...
...laid out under a mango tree and photographed; his fingertips were then sliced off for exact identification. Other ranking leaders of the leftist rebel movement have also been killed. Last month, in an unpublicized trial in Managua, 36 captured guerrillas and 74 of their compatriots who were tried in absentia drew sentences ranging from 18 months to 129 years in prison...
Harvard junior Andy Berg left Cambridge last week for Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, to rejoin the battle. The ad board gave him permission to take his only final exam in absentia, so Berg won't be returning to Harvard until next September, hopefully with an Olympic medal in the Tempest class gained by crewing for Andy Schoettle...
...revealed disastrous childhoods. Most of the P.O.W.s who broke down were very young, Pasley says, and poorly educated-a characteristic, she believes, that Patty shares with them despite her finishing-school background. One P.O.W., Pasley recalls, was convinced by his captors that he had been condemned to death in absentia by the U.S. Supreme Court. Similarly, Attorney General William Saxbe's description of Patty Hearst as "a common criminal" might well have convinced her that she would be shot on sight...