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...King's minister could get off easily, a King himself was completely immune to bribery charges, but the American authors of the Constitution changed the rules. Article II specified that the President and "all civil officers" of the U.S. could be impeached for "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." Not until 1853, however, was there a specific law against bribing a Congressman...
...Central Committee staff also remarked to me that Sadat should go "one way or another." In a short time, however, the option vanished: Sadat moved against his domestic opposition, arresting his Vice President, Ali Sabry, whom we favored, and six other Cabinet members, and eventually charging them with high treason...
...isolated too, trapped in America; but here Schlesinger dares not flirt with political or visual subtlety. Everyone is an oaf but our lad. Mom (Joyce Van Patten) is dithery, and Dad (Pat Hingle) scares the falcon, and Chris' girlfriend (Lori Singer) is one big vacant California erogenous zone. His treason is pinned on mid-America, not so much for the evil of its ways as for the banality of its style. Affluence is flatulence; good intentions are to laugh at; filial piety is worth nothing but betrayal...
...what appeared to be a minor concession, the Pretoria government last week released five of eleven black leaders who were detained without charges in the past three months. The remaining six, however, are expected to be charged under the country's Internal Security Act with subversion, treason or promotion of an unlawful organization. The maximum penalty: a life sentence or death. In a further indication of its tough mood, the government last week arrested two of three anti-apartheid activists as they left the British consulate in Durban after seeking sanctuary in the building for 91 days. They...
Eighteen judges, including Anne Boleyn's father, found More guilty of four counts of treason. The defendant died handsomely. To the soldier who helped him mount the scaffold he is reported to have said, "I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my. coming down, let me shift for myself...