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And the Shah's security forces moved firmly against the remnants of Mossadegh's organization, pushed through the trial and execution of 30 army officers linked with the Communist-run Tudeh Party.
The Quare Fellow is Irish prison slang for a condemned man. Around the imminent hanging of such a man, who himself never appears on stage, Irish Playwright Brendan Behan, sometime I.R.A. man and jailbird (see SHOW BUSINESS), has set down a clearly on-the-spot account. As in that memoir...
"From its beginning," Pusey continued, "he has been the designer and organizer of the Program, and his enthusiastic, effective, and imaginative leadership has been indispensable to its planning and execution."
BLOODY BABS, THE TIGER WOMAN, scream the tabloids, and the jury gives her the limit. But Convict Graham protests her innocence, and her protest is supported by a well-known psychiatrist. Says he: "She is totally immoral, [but] her crimes are the crimes of those for whom physical violence is...
The spectacle of a public execution has always drawn a crowd, and this one will probably be no exception, even though the witnesses must pay for the privilege. But in the post-mortem many witnesses will wonder what is the meaning of the painful lesson they have just been read...