Word: traitorousness
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Looking back over his first 3½ months on the job, Safire thinks that he has made the best of a bad situation: "If I defend the President, I'm an apologist. If I attack him, I'm a traitor. If I ignore the whole thing, I'm a cop-out." Deservedly known as a wit and wordsmith during his years as an Administration speechwriter, Safire has kept his sense of humor throughout the ordeal, although his neologisms ("presibuster" for the Ervin hearings, "probephiliacs" for those investigating Watergate) are shorter on style than many of his admirers...
...revelation of the secret lists is shocking. This is a police-state operation and reminds us of the lists that Adolf Hitler kept during the 1930s. It is disgusting that the present Administration is so paranoid that it considers anyone a traitor who disagrees with its political views...
...Vice Chairman Lin Piao, although named Mao's successor by the 1969 congress of the Chinese Communist Party, is now accused of betraying his country, evidently to the Soviets. Of all of Mao's opponents in the Communist Party, Lin appears to be the first to have been labelled "traitor" to the nation...
...under an assumed name. He has made a fortune in real estate and owns five villas. He was eager to give the interview because he is obsessed with justifying his views to the Belgian people. Knowing that Belgian TV would not send a reporter to talk with a convicted traitor, Degrelle chose a Dutch network, which has a wide audience in Belgium...
...favored such a move. The "nou-velle affaire Pétain," as the French were calling the caper, revived old political quarrels over the sensitive issue of national loyalties during the Nazi occupation. Resistance organizations, Gaullists and the left-wing parties said that they were determined to prevent the "traitor" from being buried at Verdun...