Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everywhere. Seemingly simple misdeeds such as fraternization outside one's immediate family, being awake after 9 p.m., falling asleep at the nightly political lecture are punished with death. Every month about 250 villagers die from starvation, but to eat a chicken or suggest killing a cow is treason. Says Soeung Meayeat, 28, who escaped six months ago: "There is nothing to do when parents die and children are taken away except wait for death so you can see them again...
...does not even deserve comment." Rubenstein went on to say that although he would not put Shahak on trial for fear of making him a martyr, "I have no doubt that there is much evidence--at least prima facie -- that justifies bringing Shahak to trial on a charge of treason...
...There is much evidence--at least prima facie--that justifies bringing Shahak to trial on a charge of treason."--Amnon Rubenstein...
...research began after CIA officials were horrified by Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty's vacant stare and mechanical voice at his 1949 treason trial in Budapest. Drugs and mind-control techniques had long been used by intelligence services, but the CIA feared that the Communists had made some breakthrough. By 1953, the CIA concluded that its worries were unfounded; still the research continued, despite some official misgivings...
...collecting information of a "political and military nature." Toth, who has made use of dissident sources for articles on Soviet science during his three-year stay in Moscow, was later interrogated about gathering information from Anatoli Shcharansky, an imprisoned Soviet human rights activist who has reportedly been charged with treason. This was clearly a warning to both foreign correspondents and dissidents that communication between them would no longer be tolerated...