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Unlike many South Africans prosecuted under the country's catch-all subversion law, Fischer made the government's case easy. He admitted being a Communist. Over the years, he defended a string of Communists and black nationalists accused of treason, including Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, who were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for planning a series of bombings and a Red Chinese-style "war of liberation." Three months after Mandela and Sisulu were convicted, Fischer was arrested as an accomplice. He then jumped a $14,000 bond and went into hiding - growing a goatee, dyeing...
...consensus of the white populace is not yet for submission. Rumore of growing opposition to the Smith regime and of the formation of shadow cabinets are exaggerated. The Minister of Law and Order has received extra-constitutional powers from Smith to hold anyone suspected of such treason in prison indefinitely without trial. And the Rhodesian government continues to demand the death penalty for two Africans accused of attempted arson although they have already received royal pardon. This is not yet a mood of acquiesence...
...that, nearly a dozen white legislators signed petitions to deny him his seat, some charging him with treason. Bond's lawyers promptly filed suit in federal court to force the house to reverse its decision and seat him. At week's end, 1,000 demonstrators marched on the state capitol in Atlanta to protest his ouster...
...under the Times decision, Rose was a public figure both as legislator and professor. Daly declared that Rose was a member of "the Jewish usury element" which is "part of the Communist conspiracy" that is taking over Federal Reserve Banks. In her testimony, Miss Koch accused President Kennedy of "treason" for investigating disarmament and said that President Eisenhower was "engineered" into office by "them"-not Communists, exactly, but something more sinister called "Organization...
...Terror & Treason. Throughout the far-flung archipelago, at least 30,000 proCommunists have been arrested since the Red-led October coup attempt. According to rumors, hundreds of Red leaders have been quietly killed. In West Java, the Moluccas and the East Celebes district military commanders last week took it upon themselves to ban local Communist parties-a move that Sukarno has been "considering" but has not yet been able to stomach. The Bung, who badly needs the Communists as a balancing force against the military, has been toying with the idea of a new nationalistic Communist Party, free of Peking...