Word: treasonable
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...court where the earlier trials were held, nine more Jews loosely linked with the group that planned the same abortive hijacking were convicted, most of them on charges stemming from Zionist activities. Two of them-Gilya Butman, 38, an engineer, and Mikhail Korenblit, 33, a physician-were convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years and seven years, respectively, of a "strict regime" in a Soviet labor camp. (In the U.S., the minimum penalty for attempted hijacking is 20 years imprisonment...
...also a dedicated Communist, young Honecker was handing out political pamphlets at eight and was a full-fledged party member at 18. Two years after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was arrested and later sentenced to ten years in prison for preparing to commit high treason...
...Fort near Peshawar. As an activist who had already spent nine years and eight months in jail, he may have reasoned at the time of his arrest that his political goals would be served by the martyrdom of further imprisonment. But he obviously did not expect to face a treason charge and possible execution. Only two months earlier, after all, President Yahya had referred to him as "the next Prime Minister of Pakistan...
Such thoughts, which could scarcely have been admitted a year or two ago, still sound treasonable. Yet it is not basically a matter of treason, but a deep, almost nihilistic weariness. Since it long ago became clear that an American "victory" in Viet Nam is impossible, the overriding desire now is for a clear-cut finish...
...popular during good times as during bad. The swashbuckler, which was regarded as epic only when stricken with elephantiasis, was always a totally escapist form: it transported the audience to a never-never land where evil baron Basil Rathbone could say to rebel Errol Flynn, "You speak treason!"; to which Flynn could add: "Fluently." What creative rapport could Hollywood establish with twelfth-century England or Italian buccaneers? All they could do was film the material as excitingly as they could, and spice it up with Campish or currently idiomatic dialogue...