Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here the answer is relatively simple. How can a Western observer know better than a Pole what the Soviets are up to? All the past of Polish-Soviet relations is marked by violence and treason from the Soviet side. Of course, the official historiography keeps its mouth shut about that. But Polish people remember very well the massacre in Katyn forest, the deportations to Siberia, the betrayed Warsaw Uprising, the means by which Communist rule has been imposed on Poland since 1944. And they also remember three examples of Soviet "brotherly help": Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan...
...Right groups who defeated him was to recognize that one can't afford to trust one's political opponents the way McGovern did. The Right doesn't just disagree with its adversaries--it hates them. To the New Right, Barry Goldwater's friendship with McGovern is a form of treason, or at least an inadmissible sentimentality in the midst of the struggle against liberalism...
...that non-Arab Muslim fanatic to the east, Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, who late last week called on Egyptians to overthrow "the dead Pharaoh's successors" and replace his government with a Khomeini-style Islamic republic), the Arabs felt betrayed by Sadat. What was statesmanship to the West was treason in their eyes. Of course, they envied him: they could not forgive him for getting back more Arab land by negotiating than they had achieved by other means. They were impatient; his patience seemed boundless. They felt he had given away his soul for the Sinai; he maintained...
...return, the East Germans agreed to release 43 West Germans jailed on catch-all "treason" charges-unjustly, according to the Bonn government. The plan also calls for East German authorities to issue exit visas to some 3,000 of their citizens who want to join relatives in the West. But for this the West Germans reportedly have to pay extra: a total ransom of about $45 million...
...decades China's Communist leadership had characterized the rival Nationalist regime in Taiwan as "nothing but a government of treason, civil war and dictatorship." Peking has often refused to rule out the possibility of using force to capture the island. But last week China seized the occasion of the forthcoming 70th anniversary of the fall of the Manchu dynasty to step up a propaganda campaign to woo and win Taiwan. In an unprecedented offer, Peking invited the leaders in Taiwan to "share power" with the Communists in a reunified China...