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...saber broken as he tries to gather military secrets. Such attacks on Pawlowski in the official press suggest that he may still be alive and that Polish leaders aim to prepare public opinion for a formal trial-possibly by a military court. If Pawlowski were convicted of treason, which carries the death penalty, a great saber will indeed have been broken...
...prisoners had been held in Athens' Korydallos prison. Last week Papadopoulos himself, after seven months in Korydallos, became the principal defendant in a mass trial at the prison. Along with 19 other former members of the ousted military junta, the ex-dictator was charged with acts of high treason and insurrection that had subjected Greece to 7½ years of dictatorship, from 1967 to 1974. The maximum penalty for insurrection: death by firing squad...
Kanellopoulos' testimony undermined the charge of insurrection. But the accusations of high treason-for acting against the national interest-will probably be strengthened next week when Andreas Papandreou, head of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, will reportedly name CIA officials as the colonels' coconspirators. The maximum penalty for high treason is life imprisonment, but the junta leaders are expected to get off with lighter sentences. Although extremists have called for retributive justice, most Greeks merely wish to see them judged under...
...President great power, largely because they tailored the office to fit the man who they knew would be the first incumbent. Trusting George Washington, they made him - and all his successors - Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, ruled that he could be removed from office only for treason or criminal behavior, and gave him veto power over the Legislative Branch. Since then, other Presidents have increased this inherently powerful office in size, panoply and functions, but not in effectiveness, public confidence or contact with the people...
...Amin's delight in twisting the British lion's tail may take precedence over other considerations. At week's end Radio Uganda announced that several more British citizens had been arrested on treason charges and would be tried by a military tribunal. "Their cases," the statement added, "are even worse than Hills...