Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democratic Presidential Candidate WALTER MONDALE at the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis: "Having seen the inner workings of our defense system, there is no one who believes more than I that there is information which must remain absolutely secret. We have espionage and treason laws to handle such situations. But I also believe that journalists, academics, public servants and whistle blowers have just as much right to free speech as do the high officials who call reporters into their offices and leak classified information in support of Administration policy. The danger isn't just in censorship...
...tableau of South Africa today: the white minority government on the defensive as black defiance quickens around it. The incident also dramatized the efforts of the authorities to crack down on protesters they describe as radicals: the 14 men bundled away were being held on unspecified charges of high treason. In all, about 50 blacks are facing similar accusations. Yet the government's attempt to beat down continuing black unrest has seemed only to fan it further: as a result of clashes in the past two weeks, nearly all of them in the volatile Eastern Cape region, more than...
...days later, the government banned 29 black organizations from holding any meetings over the next three months in 18 districts, mainly in the Eastern Cape. Among the groups was the broadly based antiapartheid alliance known as the United Democratic Front, 16 of whose leaders already face charges of treason. The ban, said the Rev. Christiaan Beyers Naude, an Afrikaner who is general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, was "an act of desperation on the part of the government...
...dismissals were linked to political maneuvering in anticipation of national elections next November. After five new Justices were sworn in by a defiant Assembly, Suazo Cordova reportedly issued arrest orders for all of them; authorities detained Ramon Valladares Soto, who had been appointed Chief Justice, and charged him with treason. At week's end a Western observer described the situation in Tegucigalpa as "very fragile...
...Black students may face charges of high treason: upon their eventual return to South Africa, Townsend said, since any form of protest by South Africans against apartheid is illegal. The penalty for such action is a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of death...