Word: treasonable
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DIED. RUDOLF AUGSTEIN, 79, influential founder and publisher of the liberal, often combative postwar German newsweekly Der Spiegel, which quickly moved away from Nazi-era press restrictions to champion tough investigative journalism; of pneumonia; in Hamburg. Augstein went to prison for treason in 1962 in what became known as the Spiegel Affair: after the magazine published an article critical of NATO, police arrested journalists, an act that drew international scorn and helped lead to the downfall of West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss...
...terrorists are suffering from the same disease. “It’s a little something I like to call racial profiling.” According to Coulter, racial profiling at airports is such a foolproof measure against terrorism that only a paper like the “Treason Times”—also occasionally referred to as The New York Times—would be so unpatriotic as to publish editorials against...
...that means resisting the urge to say things like “alleged civil liberties claims have only one goal: to cushion terrorists.” Likewise, it means confronting the fact that the decision to invade Iraq should not be entered into lightly. Were Coulter to read a treason-free paper like the Wall Street Journal, she might discover that even some documented non-liberals such as Brent Scrowcroft, national security advisor to the first President Bush, have questioned the wisdom of such an attack...
...survey was commissioned by the pro-reform parliament's national security and foreign policy commission, which denied that the poll was "a manipulation of public views" and asked the judiciary to drop the charges. But given that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called overtures toward the U.S. "treason and stupidity," the harsh reaction was not unexpected. --By Azadeh Moaveni
...revolution. A dozen men, all Afrikaners, have been arrested since late July for allegedly taking part in a conspiracy for armed insurrection against the African National Congress (A.N.C.) government, and the police are searching for other suspected ringleaders. The men go on trial in February on charges of high treason. The South African security forces have reason to regard the threat as real. Last week, a large cache of weapons and explosives, which police say may be linked to the plot to overthrow the A.N.C., was discovered at a farm some 170 km north of Johannesburg. And 3 weeks before...