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...Crying Treason. At week's end, it appeared that with the army's disciplined support. Menderes had put down the challenge. But the outburst expressed rising resentment among Turkish students and intellectuals against his strongman rule...
...March 21 et seq.) took on unprecedented proportions. Masan has long been a stronghold of opposition to Rhee's Liberals. In 1956 the people of Masan gave Rhee only half as many votes as Progressive Party Candidate Cho Bong Am (later hanged by Rhee's police for treason). Masan's voters flatly refused to believe that this time they had voted Liberal by nearly...
...Castro's Cuba, disagreement with such doctrine has come to mean treason; so also does antiCommunism. Last week the rate of treason thus defined climbed dramatically...
...more than the alltime low recorded in 1958. Women are virtually exempted from the death penalty: not one was executed in the U.S. in 1958 or 1959, and only 31 have been executed over the past three decades (29 for murder, one for kidnaping, one for treason...
There are six capital crimes under federal law (murder, rape, bank robbery, kidnaping, treason, espionage) and some 30 under state laws (e.g., aiding a suicide in Arkansas or burning a railway bridge in Georgia), but in practice the death penalty is seldom carried out in the U.S. for offenses other than 1) murder and 2)rape committed by a Negro in the South. Of the 97 men executed in the U.S., in 1958-59 under state laws, 81 were convicted of murder, 15 of rape (14 Negroes, one white, all in Southern states), and one of armed robbery (a Negro...