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...other drug developments: in Geneva the district attorney issued an arrest warrant for Huchang Davallou, a member of the imperial entourage of the Shah of Iran, and charged him with supplying 35 gm. of pure opium to an Iranian resident of Geneva. Police discovered that Davallou was protected by diplomatic immunity. The Shah angrily broke off a skiing holiday in St. Moritz and, with Davallou in hand, quickly schussed back to Teheran. Swiss papers noted sarcastically that the Shah's regime had executed scores of Iranians for the same offense: trafficking in drugs...
White Rhodesians have blamed the opposition on intimidation by a black organization called the African National Council. The government has arrested more than 1,500 people in the past six weeks. It has placed in detention without trial four well-known critics of Smith's regime-two blacks, African Politician Josiah Chinamano and his wife, and two whites, Southern Rhodesia's onetime Prime Minister Garfield Todd and his daughter Judith. Last week the regime bowed to British pressure by transferring the Todds from prison to house arrest on their ranch near Shabani; it also moved the Chinamanos...
Czechoslovak Party Boss Gustav Husák could hardly have been more emphatic. In response to a question by a visiting French Communist about reprisals against onetime followers of ousted Reformer Alexander Dubček, Husák declared: "There is and will be no trial and no arrest for political activities in 1968 and 1969, and there is and will be no trial or arrest for opinions held. Socialist legality will be scrupulously respected...
...addition, scores of liberal stage directors, actors and television workers have been jailed or put under house arrest. Eight actors from a theater in the Moravian town of Ostrava have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 20 months for "crude deformation" of a play by Soviet Writer Valentin Katayev. Reportedly, the actors parodied parts of the play, which is a tribute to Russian gallantry during World...
...observes: "We have a very diligent bunch of young public defend ers around here who . . . will drive you up the wall defending a chicken shit burglary like it was the Sacco-Vanzetti trial." Knowing that a suspect is guilty, Bumper lies on the stand about the circumstances of the arrest, partly to protect one of his informants, partly to ensure that the man gets convicted. Out on the streets, Wambaugh suggests, cops have to make their own accommodations...