Wednesday, May 23. 1962 University Daily Kansan
Death Penalty Asked for Salan
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PARIS (UPI) — The prosecution demanded the death penalty for former Gen. Raoul Salan today for his part in the activities of the terrorist Secret Army Organization (OAS).
But Prosecutor Andre Gavalda also expressed the hope at the end of a long final address to the special high tribunal trying Salan for treason that mercy would be shown to France's most-decorated soldier.
The prosecutor made his demand in these words:
"Without being able to present any extinguish circumstances and without being able myself to ask for mercy, which I hope will be given. I ask for the irreversible penalty."
PRESUMABLY. HE WAS REFERRING to the possibility that President Charles de Gaulle would commute any death sentence.
This was the seventh day of Salan's trial in the heavily-guarded Palace of Justice. The day's session started at 6 a.m. (CST), and a verdict and sentence were expected sometime late tonight.
He described Salan's refusal to answer questions both in the preliminary interrogation by an examining magistrate and in court as a "tactic for the defense."
Gavalda, suffering from rheumatism, remained seated and read his address from a prepared text. He rejected the idea put forward by many defense witnesses that history would exonerate Salan.
"WE MUST CONDEMN Salan for his crimes and I am sure that history will ratify this decision," he said.
General's Son Hurt in Battle
Giving a resume of the Algiers Putsch of April 1961, he said that Salan was not in on its organization but "only jumped on the bandwagon."
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—(UPI) Lt. Col. Frank B. Clay, son of Gen. Lucius D. Clay, and three other U.S. Army officers were wounded today during a battle in which the South Vietnamese routed Communist guerrillas for their biggest military victory in a month.
An American Army master sergeant was wounded while on a training mission in a separate and unrelated incident. His name was withheld for the time being. He was reported to have stepped on a Communist-planted land mine while leading a group of South Vietnamese rangers in the training exercise about 20 miles northwest of Saigon.
Clay and the others were injured when their helicopter was hit by Communist ground fire from automatic weapons. Their wounds were not serious.
A U.S. military spokesman said Clay and the others were wounded while watching South Vietnamese forces battle the Communists in Kieng Phong province's plains of reeds, about 75 miles southwest of Saigon.
Clay, whose father is President Kennedy's special Berlin adviser, is U.S. military adviser to the South Vietnamese 7th division. His wounded companions included another adviser and two helicopter pilots.
Vietnamese officials said 55 Communist guerrillas were killed, 18 wounded and 15 captured in the battle. They said fewer than 10 government soldiers were either killed or wounded.
Peace Corps Needs Biologists
WASHINGTON - (UPI) - Biologists and scientists in the paramedical fields are needed by the Peace Corps, reports Sam Babbitt of the Corps' college and university division.
Among requests from 31 countries, 1.000 have been for scientists, science teachers and technicians. For example, El Salvador called recently for a biologist with training in bacteriology to demonstrate biological techniques in pest control, animal husbandry and horticulture.
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