AGITATION MOUNTS AROUND REGIS DEBRAY CASE
The worldwide protests against the imprisonment of Régis Debray have nettled the Barrientos dictatorship in Bolivia and rendered more difficult its plans to frame the young French journalist. Debray, Professor of Philosophy at Havana University and author of the recently published Revoluci6n en la Revolucién, was seized April 20 with seven others by the Bolivian police, accused of leading a guerrilla band, held incommunicado for weeks, and faces trial by a military tribunal.
After two months of waiting, Mme Alexandre-Debray was permitted to see her son July 10 for a half hour. Debray notified his mother that he had dismissed his lawyer. "This proceeding is a farce," he told her. "I have been condemned in advance. My lawyer, Walter Flores Torrico, whom I saw for only five minutes, has betrayed me." Debray stated he expected to receive the maximum penalty of thirty years imprisonment.