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...other motives in supporting the fedayeen, who are closely watched and restricted within Syria. The Syrians are also discreetly involved in trying to maintain peace in battered Lebanon (see following story) and they have renewed ties with King Hussein, whom Damascus has denounced at times as an "heir of treason" for his expulsion of the fedayeen from Jordan in the "Black September" of 1970. Jordan, Lebanon and parts of Palestine make up what was known as Greater Syria. Israelis, at least, wonder whether Assad, in his attempts to form an Eastern military front against Israel, is also eager to reconstitute...
Perhaps the most dangerous provisions of the bill are the clauses that are directed at reversing the current trend of criminal sentencing. Besides making the death penalty mandatory for sabotage, espionage, treason and various categories of murder, the bill also provides for high maximum penalties, giving the judge greater discretion in criminal sentencing. By making sentences indeterminate for felonies, the bill allows judges to hand down terms of anywhere between one year and life for certain crimes. Some judges are predisposed to make rulings based in part on race, poverty, or even appearance. The indeterminate sentence provisions is a step...
...last year named him presidential press adviser. Bashir's first step was to abandon the censorship and tone down the anti-Zionist rhetoric that used to dominate Egyptian press policy. "If anybody photographed a camel in our streets," he says of the xenophobic old days, "it was considered treason...
...Martyred Abdel Khader Husseini Group, named after a Palestine liberation fighter. The group is thought to be composed of militants from the "rejection front," which is opposed to a negotiated settlement with Israel. They telephoned their demands to a Spanish news agency. Describing the Sinai accord as "treason against the Egyptian people," they said they would kill their hostages if Sadat did not repudiate the Sinai agreement and abandon implementation talks on the accord that are underway in Geneva. The Iraqi and Algerian ambassadors, later joined by those from Jordan and Kuwait, rushed to help their captive colleague. They communicated...
Throughout his 21-day trial for high treason and insurrection, former Dictator George Papadopoulos acted as if he still considered himself the most powerful man in Greece. Slavishly deferential, Papadopoulos' 19 co-defendants in the trial at Korydallos Prison on the outskirts of Athens referred to him as "Mr. President." When talking to reporters, the squat, jaunty Papadopoulos assured them that he would not be in jail for long. Disdainfully refusing to enter a plea in his defense, he crowed, "I shall answer only to history and the Greek people." To which Court President Ioannis Deyannis replied, his small...