Word: beldeanu
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...Fantastic?" Leader of the band was 32-year-old Oliviu Beldeanu, a bearded six-footer who had passed his time in prison carving religious images. Testifying for almost two solid days, Beldeanu explained that he and his comrades had joined Rumania's underground, "The Men of the Forest," following the execution or imprisonment of their parents by the Communists. Fleeing west in 1949, they had been embittered by Western indifference to Rumania's plight. "I wanted to show the world that legations of Eastern countries are spy centers," said Beldeanu...
...killing of Chauffeur Setu, insisted Beldeanu, was an accident. Convinced that Setu was trying to get a gun out of the legation car, one of the younger members of the band aimed at Setu's feet only to have his Sten gun jump and riddle the chauffeur's body. Beldeanu admitted, however, that he had considered taking hostages and holding the legation until the Bucharest government liberated a number of prominent anti-Communists from Rumanian jails. "Don't you think this is a bit too fantastic?" asked Presiding Judge Paul Schwartz. "No," said Beldeanu firmly...
...Know Criminals." Anxious not to compromise Swiss neutrality, Judge Schwartz resolutely steered Beldeanu away from any discussion of the contents of the 464 documents that the band had turned over to the Swiss police, and which the police-after a day's delay-had dutifully returned to the legation. Otherwise, the court heard defense witnesses out with obvious fascination, and when the prosecution began to present its witnesses, their statements frequently sounded more like letters of reference than like hostile testimony. "I know criminals when I see them," declared the prison warden. "These men are no criminals...
...clear where Swiss sympathies lay. "The defendants' lives," said Dubois, "have not been happy . . . They learned political hatred, went from jail to jail." Then, although under Swiss law he could have demanded 20-year sentences on the murder charge alone, Dubois asked only six years' imprisonment for Beldeanu and shorter sentences for the other three Men of the Forest...
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