Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro, Ray says: "He has done harm to my country; harm to the entire free world; he has done harm to everyplace." And of Castro's fate, after he is deposed: "It must be decided in a fair trial whether he is a traitor or not. I am personally opposed to all executions. There will be no murders afterward, except those that fall in battle; we are all agreed on that. Fidel must be tried, and the judges must decide...
...conscience and a believing heart." But what was duty? Eichmann again had a ready answer: obedience. "I was always used to discipline, from my childhood until 1945," he explained, "discipline that required my unreserved, unconditional obedience." With pride, he added: "If somebody told me, 'Your father is a traitor,' and I was ordered to kill him, I would have done so without hesitation...
Last week Thao grimly counted an election-week total of 60 Communist dead, killed in some dozen jungle skirmishes. Though the Communists warned that they would shoot any "traitor" who voted, Thao got 83% of his voters to the polls. "We tried a little propaganda of our own," he admits. "We told the people that if they did not vote, they would have trouble getting jobs or help from the government...
...Spoleto. Sold off with Burton and several minor works by Chagall and Tiepolo were Composer Menotti himself (for $501. to Novelist Pati Hill) and Conductor Thom as Schippers, who brought a mere $325 from Jean Feldman, ex-wife of Agent Charles Feldman. Schippers later registered a complaint with Maxwell: "Traitor, $350 for only an actor!" This week the proud owners were scheduled to feed their purchases at a champagne dinner in Manhattan, along with 125 paying guests. At $35 a head, the hosts figure on raising another...
...when Colonel Mobutu's troops finally got their hands on the fleeing Lumumba, he already was beyond remote Port Francqui, a steamboat stop on the Kasai River, 400 miles from Leopoldville. As angry crowds surrounded the Port Francqui police station shouting "Judas" and "Traitor," the soldiers wired their army boss to collect Lumumba immediately, or they would shoot him for treason. Sternly, Mobutu sent back word not to harm the prisoner and dispatched a plane to pick him up. "I cannot judge him. He must defend himself before the courts," explained Mobutu...