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Their trials are expected to commence this week. A spokesman of the National Unity Committee chillily announced that "sentences will be carried out immediately, defendants will not have right of appeal, curfews will be imposed on execution nights."
Cruel Gallantry. Shamyl respected courage above all other qualities and was capable of a cruel gallantry: once he halted the execution of a Russian prince because he liked the way the captive faced the firing squad. His character impressed itself upon his enemy, and when he was finally subdued and...
Among all the leaders of the Turkish regime overthrown by last May's military revolution, the toughest was President Celal Bayar, 77, a veteran of the bomb-throwing resistance to the Ottoman tyranny before World War I. He is also the man most Turks consider responsible for inspiring the...
As the book commences, he and she are fanning a white flame of rage. They alternately argue bitterly and refuse to recognize each other's existence. The issue is the execution of a union leader named Krasnitz, who shot a plant owner when the man tried to cross a...
But neither Macleod nor Renison could find any legal grounds for intervening. Last week, as a warder solemnly posted announcement of the execution on the gate of Nairobi Prison, an African in the keyed-up crowd gathered outside cried: "Justice has been done; Macleod is with us!" Turning away in...