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Anxiety Three: Rooting for football is treason to hockey...
...Bakr retired in 1979, and that left Saddam completely in charge. He celebrated by ordering the execution of 21 Cabinet members, including one of his closest comrades, on dubious charges of treason. "He who is closest to me is farthest from me when he does wrong," said Saddam...
...Spain and laid down his rifle. "Allah is the greatest," he said, then stood in the pouring rain as 70 of his followers added their arms to the growing pile of weapons and were taken into custody by Trinidadian soldiers. The rebels are expected to face criminal charges of treason, murder and kidnapping, and could be hanged if found guilty...
...Treason charges against Honecker were dropped last March. Nonetheless, the ousted leader, who is receiving treatment for kidney cancer at a Soviet hospital in East Germany, is still under investigation for corruption and abuse of power. Late last month new potential charges surfaced: East German Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel announced that Honecker had given safe haven to Red Army Faction terrorists. Honecker and a few senior officials may eventually stand trial, but the vast majority of party members seem unlikely to suffer much. For example, Diestel has hired back, as an act of "Christian charity," 12,000 former State...
...Gorbachev, but white detractors say De Klerk is unleashing forces he cannot control. Ultraright-wing militants are already gearing for battle. Last week the Conservative Party, made up of right-wingers who eight years ago broke away from the ruling National Party because they considered it too conciliatory, brought treason charges against Mandela and two other antiapartheid leaders and demanded that they be investigated...