Word: treasonable
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...satiric thriller about presidential conniving and conspiracy in Washington? Two years ago, when Hail! to the Chief was made, no distributor would touch it; the movie seemed to fall somewhere between poor taste and treason. Now, post-Watergate, it has had no trouble finding a distributor; it seems to fall somewhere between poor taste and topicality. Moral: for some moviemakers, it is safer to be accused of quickie exploitation than of insight or prophecy...
...Viet Nam. Among them: misinterpretation of history, extravagance of purpose, blindness to cost, arrogance, deceit, disdain for Congress and the twisting of patriotism - this last, Richard Nixon's appalling variation on the McCarthy era's theme that any disagreement with U.S. policy amounts to some kind of treason. Hughes points out, though, that the presidential methods employed to get embroiled in the war were almost exactly like the methods used by earlier Presidents - among them Lincoln, F.D.R. and Harry Truman - to lead the country into what later seemed to be heroic and perhaps necessary confrontations...
...sole South Korean voice speaking against dictatorship and for freedom." Adding to the speculation of Park's involvement was the memory of a previous incident in 1967 when the Korean CIA abducted 22 Korean dissenters in Europe and brought them home to face trial for treason...
...there are no judicial precedents." Never before has Congress subpoenaed a President. Only once has the Judiciary Branch issued a subpoena to a President. That was in 1807, when Chief Justice John Marshall, performing his collateral role as a district-court judge in Richmond, was trying Aaron Burr for treason. Burr wanted Thomas Jefferson to produce letters written to him by one of the prosecution witnesses...
...scarlet robes, looking small and bent in the vast nave of London's Westminster Cathedral, was Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, 81. For many of his fellow Hungarian exiles, the frail figure celebrating Mass for them remained an abiding symbol of the cold war. In 1949 Mindszenty was convicted of treason, espionage and black marketing by the Communist regime in Hungary. He spent seven years in solitary confinement, enjoyed four days of freedom during the uprising in 1956 and then, when the Russians returned, remained for 15 more years in seclusion in the U.S. embassy. Since 1971, the former Primate...