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Last week, under a 1901 New York law that had not been successfully invoked for 45 years, a State Supreme Court jury-including two Negro women-found Epton, 33, guilty of conspiring to riot and to overthrow the state. He faces a maximum penalty of twelve years in prison. The same grand jury that indicted Epton investigated the riot's causes. It gave immunity from prosecution on riot charges to 13 witnesses, eleven of them members of Epton's Progressive Labor Movement. The 13 were cited for contempt after refusing to testify. Five have been sentenced to four...
Three years ago, in the months that followed the military overthrow of President Arturo Frondizi, the country ricocheted from crisis to crisis as rival army factions fought bitterly for control. Ongania, then commander of the army's crack motorized cavalry corps, emerged as the muscle behind a group of enlightened officers determined to reestablish constitutional government. He sent tanks rumbling into the city and, after a series of sharp, bloody clashes, routed the army's Colorado faction, which stood for old-style, jack-booted dictatorship. Illia's peaceful election ten months later consolidated Ongania's triumph...
...concluded his 40-minute speech with a call for a "humanist revolution" to overthrow the corporate system...
...principal errors involve: Stella Stevens, as a slatternly village dressmaker who tricks him into entombing her murdered husband; Honor Blackman, irrationally seductive as a mad neo-Nazi entomologist who breeds spiders the size of St. Bernards; and Shirley Jones, as a revolutionist who enlists Booth's aid to overthrow a Central American republic while pretending to make a movie about it. Comedian Lionel Jeffries labors throughout in four lunatic minor roles...
Strange goings-on indeed for two old enemies. The two Congos have been bitterly divided by ideology, with Leopoldville firmly pro-West and Brazzaville under Chinese Communist influence. They have been feuding ever since the Brazzaville crowd threw their weight behind the Congolese rebels trying to overthrow the Leopoldville government, and the feud grew even more intense when Moise Tshombe, whom African nationalists once despised, took over as Premier in Leopoldville...