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Wallace has also increased his respectability by his frequent appearances at luncheons for business and professional men. His speeches are usually interrupted by table-thumping applause, and his attacks on the "bearded intellectual morons" who commit treason when they denounce the war in Vietnam often bring the cheering community leaders to their feet...
Call for Peace Talks. At week's end, none of the group was laughing. After a quick drumhead trial in Havana's La Cabaña fortress, Escalante and 36 of his fellow conspirators were found guilty of treason and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 15 years (Escalante got the maximum). Though Fidel himself kept silent, he did not seem ready to split with Russia and lose his $1,000,000-a-day dole. Cuban Minister Without Portfolio Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, speaking for Castro, called for ideological peace talks with Moscow; after all, he noted...
Dilemma for Castro. President Barrientos told newsmen in Zurich, where he was having a medical checkup, that he would trade Debray for Huber Matos, 48, a onetime Castro aide who was convicted of "high treason" in 1959 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. "I admire Matos profoundly," Barrientos said. "He has the same ideas I have. He fought for social reforms, but he refused to be an agent for Moscow...
...political reasons since the military seized power eight months ago would be freed. Indeed, some 100 prisoners were forthwith released, including the most celebrated one of all, Andreas Papandreou, 48, the son of the former Premier. Andreas, who had been scheduled to stand trial for conspiracy to commit treason, got out of jail in time to join his American wife and four children at their home in an Athens suburb for Christmas. The fifteen officers convicted in the 1965 Aspida conspiracy, which allegedly sought to depose the King and establish a neutralist socialist regime, were also released, as well...
...snoot shoots defiantly skyward, the prognathous jaw drops in mock anguish, or he goes into a stop-action freeze. Sometimes he just repeats the line until the audience gets it. They don't have to laugh of course -but if they don't, it's almost treason...