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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast--A group led by President Thomas Sankara's chief adviser declared him a "a traitor to the revolution" yesterday and seized the government, the West African nation's official radio announced...
...Urrutia tried his hand as an American. The three-time world champion, who defected seven years ago on the end of a bedsheet in Mexico City, finished third in the middleweight class to two former countrymen. Fidel Castro sent them his congratulations: "You taught an exemplary lesson to the traitor." Urrutia declared he was glad to be free, "like a bird," but the / medal ceremony was bittersweet. "When I hear the national anthem," he said wistfully, "of course I feel like a Cuban." By the time the last weight was lowered, that anthem had lifted the hall 25 times...
What was going on? A few weeks ago Peres reportedly held secret talks with Jordan's King Hussein. Peres apparently found a ready partner in Hussein, who has long advocated a peace conference at which he could deal directly with Israel without being branded a traitor to the Arab cause. His efforts to form a negotiating partnership with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat failed a year...
Alas Count Rumford, the American traitor, Harvard knows and treats him well...
Tending Rumford's burial plot does not signal a long-standing University policy of granting amnesty to past Benedict Arnolds'. Instead, Harvard agreed to maintain the traitor's grave in perpetuity after he bequeathed to them an endowed chair in the physical and mathematical sciences...