Word: traitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declaring: "No person whatever, belonging to the Army, is to be inoculated for the small pox." A week later he went even further: "Any officer in the Continental Army, who shall suffer himself to be inoculated, will be cashiered and turned out of the Army ... as an enemy and traitor to his country...
...charges against the mercenaries ranged from specific atrocities (murder, assault, arson, sabotage, rape and robbery) to vague accusations of "meeting with the traitor Holden Roberto" (head of the defeated National Front for the Liberation of Angola−F.N.L.A.). The "crime" of being a mercenary, charged against all 13 defendants, is not denned in Angolan law, but most foreign observers were impressed by at least the surface fairness of the proceedings...
Most people probably know that Pound was a traitor during the war, a collaborator with the Fascisti in Italy. But few probably know how he arrived at that point. It started with his departure from Paris in the fall of 1924--he was fed up, some of his friends say, with helping other writers with their works. By that time he had already edited Eliot's "The Waste Land" into shape and he had exerted a lot of energy getting enough money for Joyce to finish Ulysses in Zurich. Countless others relied on his abilities as a writer and editor...
...asked to say anything contrary to his conscience or contrary to his duties as an American citizen." The problem was really that Pound didn't understand the difference between intent and action. Even Camillo Pellizzi, the president of the Fascist Institute of Culture, said Pound was legally a traitor, but that the poet thought it was his "duty" to expose the American administration under Roosevelt...
...Secretary of the Treasury. It was also a time when word arrived of a mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty, when the first chrysanthemum reached France from China, when Captain John Paul Jones was accused (falsely) of an attempted rape of a ten-year-old girl in Russia, and when Traitor Benedict Arnold was floundering in his attempt to run an import-export business in Canada. Our cover subject for the week? The inevitable, overwhelming choice: George Washington, who gave the new Republic the highest gift in his power, character...