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...ornate and heavily guarded Palais de Justice, ex-General Raoul Salan, 62, was on trial for his life, charged with treason. Wearing a well-cut grey suit and elegant Cardin silk tie, Salan looked more like a prosperous businessman than the head of the terrorist Secret Army Organization. It was hard to imagine, as Le Monde put it, "that such a man wielded such frightening power...
...protested the intrusion. In October 1959, a bearded leader of Castro's rebel army, Huber Mates, resigned, saying that "the hour is coming when anyone who does not commune with Communism has to leave or be accused of being a traitor." Castro had him arrested on charges of treason and sentenced to 20 years in jail...
...Last week four members of the Cuban Families Committee for Liberation of Prisoners of War flew to Havana on a sorry mission-to negotiate the auction of 1,179 prisoners captured in last year's abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. A mass trial had found them guilty of treason; now at prices ranging from $25,000 to $500,000, Castro offered them for sale. Otherwise, said he. the prisoners would serve 30 years in prison...
...illegal act. Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe, showing the strain of the long negotiations at Evian. assured the chamber that the nationality of those Algerian residents who wanted to remain French citizens would be protected. Pied-noir Deputies from Algeria tried to howl him down, and chanted. "Treason! Treason! Treason...
...Eichmann death sentence. Society is merely a group of persons, argued Buber, and when it kills one man, it is killing part of itself. "Who gave society the right to kill itself?" he asked. "Society does not have such plenipotentiary rights." (Israel has no capital punishment except for high treason in wartime, war crimes against humanity or the Jewish people...