Word: treasonable
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Iran's official news agency last week announced the arrest of Hashemi on charges of treason and murder...
Demjanjuk's supporters include Reagan Aide Patrick Buchanan. In a Washington Post article carefully labeled as his personal view, Buchanan last week called Demjanjuk an "American Dreyfus," referring to the unfairly convicted French army officer cleared of treason charges...
...peace laureate who is due to be installed on Sept. 7 as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in southern Africa. Two weeks ago Manpower Minister Pieter du Plessis gave Tutu a "friendly warning" that his calls for sanctions against South Africa "border on high treason." Last week Andries Treurnicht, head of the far-right Conservative Party, joined the chorus by demanding that Tutu be "dealt with immediately...
...other retail stores, underscoring reports that around 180 union officials remained in detention, along with perhaps 1,600 other blacks. Out of an estimated 3,000 arrested since the emergency was declared on June 12, about 1,200 were thought to have been released. In a separate development, treason charges against four black trade unionists were dropped after the judge ruled that taped evidence appeared to have been tampered with...
...made it clear that he wants to remake the federal judiciary in his own conservative image, not just on the high court but in the lower federal courts as well. Judicial appointments can be a President's most enduring legacy. Federal judges, appointed for life and removable only for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," often serve long after a President's term expires. Future vacancies on the high court may offer Reagan a back-door means of achieving the New Right social agenda-- including permitting prayer in schools and banning abortion--that elected politicians in Congress have...