Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRETORIA, South Africa--Four Black activists, three of them leaders of the country's largest anti-apartheid group, were convicted of treason yesterday. They could face the death penalty...
Three of those convicted of treason were senior front leaders who had spent 40 months in jail without bail--Popo Molefe, 36, who was the coalition's national secretary; Terror Lekota, 40, who was its chief spokesman, and Moses Chikane, 40, a leader of its Transvaal Province branch...
...presidency, has set South Korea on a more liberal path, a course to which the country is still accommodating itself. Political opposition is flourishing. At the beginning of Chun's rule in 1980, the country's best-known opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung, 62, was found guilty of treason and, after serving time in prison, forced into exile for two years. Upon his return, he was put under house arrest...
...with rumors of imminent peace overtures soon followed by truculent denials. Arafat is infamous for his ambiguous pronouncements and retracted statements. With reason: in the past, hard-liners within his fractious organization who consider all of Israel to be Palestinian land have angrily denounced talk of recognizing Israel as treason...
...Algiers declaration was quickly disavowed by five hard-line Palestinian groups opposed to any compromise with Israel. One faction called it "high treason," while another demanded that Abu Sharif be brought to trial. Terrorist Abu Nidal's organization issued a warning that seemed to threaten Abu Sharif's life...