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...years he remained in Viet Nam-a prisoner, he claimed. He escaped after slipping a note to a Finnish economist in a Hanoi bar, and in March 1979 Garwood returned to the U.S. Home free, he thought. Other P.O.W.s, however, soon accused Garwood of being a deserter and a traitor, and he was charged with collaborating with the enemy...
...fewer in number than those on the right, but they are no less efficient in the business of killing. On a railway embankment outside the capital last week, the body of a dead youth was propped up, with a cigarette in his mouth, bearing a sign that read TRAITOR; it was signed by the F.M.L.N...
Fernandez does not consider himself a traitor to his fellow students, but he does recognize that many undergraduates did. "There were comments made as I walked out of the hearings. They called me pig, said that I was selling out to the establishment." Others questioned what he, of all people--"a minority with a very poor background"--was doing in the CRR meeting room on the penthouse floor of Holyoke Center, "sitting around with all these white gentlemen...
...moment came when the court played a recording of a speech made by Jiang to the Peking Opera troupe on Sept. 18, 1968. First almost cooing, then suddenly shouting, her voice was heard on the scratchy recording: "I tell you, Liu Shaoqi is a big counterrevolutionary, a big hidden traitor, a big renegade and a big enemy agent." She declared: "He deserves a thousand cuts, ten thousand slashes." After listening to the recording, Jiang leaned into the courtroom microphones and admitted that the voice was hers, but added, "I can't make it out clearly. There's nothing...
...those particular instances, the dangers of loyalty were largely professional. When wider issues are at stake, however, a loyal friend may be a traitor to the rest of us. E.M. Forster, who wrote a moving, if porous, defense of personal loyalty in 1939, of all years, declared: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." Forster then went on to concede that his viewpoint might be shocking and called upon Dante for support, arguing that Dante placed "Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle...