SWITZERLAND: The Men of the Forest

In the staid Swiss capital of Bern last week, plainclothesmen roamed the hotels, and scores of policemen accompanied by equally alert police dogs stood guard over the picturesque old town hall. Inside the town hall, which had been temporarily transformed into a courtroom, still more police kept a sharp eye on a polyglot crowd composed of some 120 newsmen, dozens of Iron Curtain refugees, and "observers" from Communist Rumania, China and Yugoslavia.

At the heart of all this furor were four fanatic young men, the band of anti-Communist Rumanians who in February...

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