Word: absentia
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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...
...Gaulle's stated reason, that the major phase of squaring accounts with the rebels was ending (some have been tried in absentia), told only part of the story. Eying the increasingly restive French National Assembly, the General was loading a weapon specifically denied to him under emergency rule but normally available under the constitution: the President's right to dissolve the Assembly and call new elections. To appease a vociferous farm lobby, De Gaulle allowed the winter price of milk...
...Arms are smuggled in from Spain, and four tons of plastic explosive were stolen from an army-guarded munitions base near Algiers. Though Raoul Salan has overall command of S.A.O.. its tactical leader is reportedly ex-Colonel Yves Godard. who-like Salan-has been condemned to death in absentia for his part in the April rebellion. As chief of military and civil intelligence and security in Algiers from 1957 to 1960. Godard acquired an excellent working knowledge of the rebel F.L.N. and has modeled S.A.O. on its methods...
...French delegation is headed by Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe, 59; the F.L.N. by small, tough Belkacem Krim, 38. A former French army corporal, Krim rose from guerrilla fighter in his native Kabylia to become field commander of the entire rebel army. Krim, five times sentenced to death in absentia by French military courts, is the only one of the nine "historical leaders" who began the insurrection in 1954 still at large (four were killed; four are French prisoners...
...there" he meant the Chicago meeting of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, which was awarding its highest honor, a gold-headed cane, to George Hoyt Whipple. The award had to be made in absentia because Dr. Whipple, allergic to the pollens of Northern elms and oaks, refused to leave his Florida retreat...