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...Dante hurled himself into politics. By 1300, thanks to his partisan zeal and forensic brilliance, he was one of the six principal executives of Florence; but in 1301 he met with a political disaster. The French marched on Florence and established Dante's enemies in power. Condemned in absentia to death by burning, Dante for the last 20 years of his life wandered in exile from the "bella citta" he loved. Most of his political colleagues sooner or later won remission of exile, but Dante proudly refused to compromise his principles and drifted drearily through Italy, learning...
...dissidents" were arrested, most of them Catholic. Among them, according to one report: Colonel Trang Van Chinh, chief of military security. Still at large, however, were General Lam Van Phat and Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao, ringleaders of the February attempt, who are under sentence of death following trial in absentia...
...they are sure, lie under Paris's streets. The Countess is at first natively ignorant of the uses of oil, but when she learns of the industrialists' evil lust for power, and is told how oil can give them that power, she crushes them, madly. She tries them, in absentia, condemns them, and executes them by luring all the advocates of evil down an endless stairway...
...Bella himself was quick to react. Going on television, he damned Chaabani for undertaking a "criminal adventure" and drummed him in absentia out of the army, the Politburo and the Central Committee. At the same time, a police roundup of other critics of the regime seemed imminent. Missing from their homes last week were Ferhat Abbas, onetime F.L.N. chief and former president of the National Assembly, and Mohammed Boudiaf, a former Politburo member. Another former Ben Bella prison mate, ex-Vice Premier Rabah Bitat, was reported under house arrest...
...Information Agency (in absentia...