Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tolbert had jailed early last month. One of his next acts was to order the immediate roundup of 91 officials of the Tolbert regime. Within days, eleven former ministers, including Tolbert's brother Frank, a onetime leader of the Liberian Senate, were standing trial on charges of "high treason, rampant corruption and gross violation of human rights." Several others, among them the slain President's two sons, were in hiding...
...Members of the Collegiate Association for the Research of the Principle (CARP), a group which members say owes its "inspiration" to Rev. Sun Myung Moon, began the afternoon heckling. Within an hour, they were jumping out of the crowd and toward the stage, flailing, screaming about Communist aggression, conspiracies, treason. Finally the police come to push them away. "Whose side are you on," one of the Moonies asked the cops. "Yours--but they've got a permit," a policeman answered. A tactical retreat, and then the Moonies regroup to hand out literature at the edge of the rally...
...with his own subjects by the time Charles was nine. When Charles was 11, he was sent to the House of Lords to plead for the life of the Earl of Strafford, the King's friend and servant. Parliament condemned Strafford anyway, and he was executed for high treason. At 12, he saw his first battle. At it, he left his father, who was soon captured by the Parliamentary troops, and never saw him again. When he was 19, his father was executed for high treason against the people of England...
...Institute for Training in Human Rights, sponsored by the Paris bar and UNESCO, Pettiti was appointed to the French seat on the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg last year. He has counseled some celebrated East European dissidents: Anatoli Shcharansky, whose 1978 Moscow trial for "treason" he was forbidden to attend, and Czechoslovak Playwright Vaclav Havel, who was convicted of "subversion...
...Literary Gazette charged that Sakharov had "actively opposed detente and the peace efforts of the Soviet government." Despite hints that he might be tried for treason by continuing to speak out against official policy, Sakharov would not be silenced. In a written statement sent from his new home of exile in Gorky, he charged that the Kremlin had "launched a broad demagogic campaign aiming to strengthen its military superiority" in the world. The culmination of this dangerous Soviet policy, said Sakharov, was the "invasion of Afghanistan, where Soviet soldiers are waging merciless war" against the people of Afghanistan...