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...trials are meant not only to punish those who supported Dubcek's reforms three years ago but also to prevent any replay of that "springtime of freedom." The defendants are all party officials or intellectuals. But such revenge is costing the regime heavily among its friends abroad. Italian, British and Swedish Communist newspapers have criticized the trials, and so has the acting head of the French Communist Party, Georges Marchais. One exception: U.S. Communist Angela Davis, to whom Czechoslovak liberals appealed for help. She let it be known through a friend that in her opinion, people in Eastern Europe...
...Egypt. Some Middle East observers suspected that the Kremlin might undertake heavy-handed revenge by increasing the quota of Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel or by renewing diplomatic relations with the Israelis, which were broken off in 1967. There is not much else the Russians could do to punish Sadat. There is no sense in attempting to topple him, since Sadat has already imprisoned and displaced former Vice President Ali Sabry and other pro-Soviet Egyptians who might have replaced him. Nor are the Russians likely to strip away Egypt's military strength to the point that Israel would...
Texas attorney general Crawford C. Martin, filing one of the 16 briefs requesting the rehearings, said the Court's anti-execution ruling "constitutes a severe blow to the American jury system." He went on to say that the ruling forces the legislators to decide whether or not to punish by execution...
...early to tell whether these remarks were simply a new variation on an old theme. Still, U.S. officials think the talks could advance. For one thing, the Communist offensive in South Viet Nam has faltered, while U.S. bombs continue to punish North Viet...
...pilots. The U.S. has come out for neither action, favoring instead appropriate trial and penalty within local laws. In Montreal, however, the International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialized U.N. agency, directed its legal committee to draft a convention permitting sanctions against nations that shelter or fail to punish hijackers...