Word: traitorousness
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...that starts slowly but gains momentum as it marches toward its foretold conclusion. Indeed, Anouilh's 1942 Antigone is not about suspense, but about the inevitability of playing roles. For Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, this means performing burial rites for her slain brother Polynices, who has been declared a traitor of the state and therefore forbidden those rites. For Antigone's uncle Creon, who rules Thebes, it means enforcing the law, even if he should have to execute his niece, who is also engaged to marry his son, Haemon...
...steadfast nationalist hero. To reach agreement with Israel on the terms of statehood would require profound compromises on what have long been almost sacred Palestinian demands. Arafat's great fear--his "obsession," says an aide--is that if he makes these concessions, he will be pilloried as a traitor to his people instead of a hero. Says a senior Palestinian official: "Arafat is terrified he'll be remembered as the one who gave away Palestinian rights...
...summit looking over his right shoulder, and that bodes ill for the prospects of actually achieving an agreement. Because although the ailing septuagenarian Yasser Arafat may be the effective president-for-life of the Palestinians, concern over his own legacy - particularly the fear of being remembered as a traitor rather than a savior - has him going to Washington looking over his left shoulder. He even invited members of two left-wing factions opposed to the Oslo Accords to join his delegation (the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine accepted, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine demurred...
...unlikely to follow through on his September deadline, Clinton has to be troubled by the fact that the ailing, 70-year-old Arafat has plainly become obsessed with his own legacy. Even more important than immediately delivering a Palestinian state is his desire to avoid being remembered as a traitor. In that frame of mind he presided last weekend over a PLO meeting that considerably narrowed his room for maneuver in negotiations, a session that underlined as non-negotiable demands for the return of all Palestinian areas occupied by Israel in 1967, including East Jerusalem; the removal of all Israeli...
According to Castro, the first order of business will be to put Elian in a "reorientation" camp to purge him of the capitalist and democratic elements he was exposed to in the U.S. He will be taught to view his mother as a traitor for trying to abduct him to the United States. He will be paraded around as a Communist icon, as Castro has already made him into the largest existing piece of anti-American propaganda in the country. As an adolescent, Elian will be forced to leave his family to provide labor for the Communist State...