CANADIAN PROFESSORS JOIN IN APPEAL FOR HUGO BLANCO
Toronto
A number of prominent figures on the staff of the University of Toronto have added their -names to the international list of. those who have appealed to President Belatinde Terry to release Hugo Blanco, the Peruvian peasant leader who was sentenced September 8 to serve 25 years in the notorious. El Frontén prison. A codefendant, Pedro Candela, was sentenced.to 22 years.
After being held in prison for more than three years without trial, they were accused of involvement in the deaths of three policemen who were killed in skirmishes with peasants in the Cuzco region. The army conducted the trial as a court-martial in which the prosecution also served as judge. The case has attracted international attention, drawing protests and appeals from many prominent figures.
The latest in Toronto to sign the petition included Professor Kenneth McNaught of the Department. of History, a well-known commentator and writer; Professor Donald E. Willmott of the Department of Political Economy, who is of similar prominence; and Professor C.B. Macpherson of the Department of Political wo of the inter-
Others included professors Peter Silcox, J.T.Mcheod, W.E. Gresham, Sam Hollander, A.Rotstein and C.Lumsden of the Department of Political Economy; Kenneth N. Walker, Shirley J. Cook William D.H.Johnson, Alan T.R.Powell and Henry vooperstock of the Department of Sociology; and J.M.Estes of the Department of History.
- .The appeal was sent to the Peruvian embassy in Ottawa.and copies were forwarded to Caretas, Camana 615, Oficina 308, Lima, Peru; Oiga, Av. Salaverry 674, Lima, Peru; and Dr. Alfredo Battilana, Av. Nicola de Pierola 966, Oficina 215, Lima, Peru. ;
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