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...next two days the trial proceeded in secret; newsmen were denied admission by gendarmes with submachine guns. Then came the verdicts: ten years for Frenchman Alleg, 20 years for the secretary-general of the outlawed Algerian Communist Party and one other Moslem, five to 15 years for five others, acquittals for the last two. Then police picked up the chief defense counsel, handed him an expulsion order and packed him onto a Paris-bound plane...
Business as Usual. But the businesslike Lebanese were unwilling to forsake completely their hallowed tradition of vote buying. Agents from Egypt and neighboring Syria were bankrolling U.A.R.-lining candidates, on occasion subsidized two opposing coreligionists. One candidate, who feared that all the Moslems would vote for his opponent, bid $16 for every Moslem election card-without which no one could vote. Another candidate said he was offered $7,000 to quit the race for the less than $6,000-a-year Deputy's job. With pay so small, why was the bribe so high? Explained one candid hopeful...
...Africans throng the tall, modern Georgian building near Marble Arch called East Africa House, a combination university hostel and West End club. East Africa House is subsidized by the individual colonial governments, but members also pay an annual subscription. The different nationalities generally group together. In the pleasant bar, Moslem Somalis sit in one corner drinking Coca-Cola; a group of Kenyans sip martinis, Tanganyikans have their whiskies, and a Uganda engineer drinks beer by himself. All the talk is of politics, both international (a majority held that Khrushchev was right and Eisenhower wrong on the U-2 question...
...electorate voted. One faction among the French settlers, smarting from what a De Gaulle adviser calls a post-insurrection "realization that they are no longer masters of their fate," boycotted the polls, cutting the turnout in the cities. The rebel F.L.N. also called for abstention; 70% of the Moslem population stayed away in Algiers' casbah, and 86% in Sétif, home town of F.L.N. "Premier" Ferhat Abbas...
...independent unions have joined forces to demand immediate negotiations with the F.L.N. France's big Socialist Party is agitating for a ceasefire, and last week the potent National Students Union announced that it planned to resume its links with the outlawed, pro-F.L.N. Union of Algerian Moslem Students...