Word: treasonable
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...Treason. The response in Kampala, where Obote was never popular, was jubilant. Cheering crowds trampled on thousands of framed Obote photographs. Some tried to scale the walls of the 17-story Apolo Hotel, Obote's namesake, to tear down its huge neon sign. Others attempted to commandeer a tank to blast an engraving of Obote from the seal of the Parliament building...
Obote, en route home from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, took refuge in Dar es Salaam, capital of neighboring Tanzania. His host, President Julius Nyerere, denounced the coup as "an act of treason to the whole course of African progress." It may also have an adverse effect on the East African Community, a common market that Uganda shares with Tanzania and Kenya. Obote accused Amin of corruption and chicanery, blamed the takeover on the Israelis (who help train Uganda's armed forces) and vowed that he would go home as President. It was far more likely, however, that...
...Treason...
...that we, the Germans, come to terms with our neighbors, especially our eastern neighbors, who were the victims of criminal Nazi terror. The organizations of refugees from the former German territories always condemn Brandt's new Ostpolitik with such ominous terms as "treacherous." I ask only, "Is it treason to accept the realities...
...eloquent final statement at the trial, the 27-year-old wife of Eduard Kuznetsov, one of the two who were condemned to death, said: "Soviet law should not regard as treason a desire to live in another country. This desire, sanctified by 2,000 years of hope, will never leave me." Sentenced to ten years at hard labor, she concluded with a verse from Psalm 137, "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither...