Word: treasonable
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...zealots known as Hezbollahis (members of God's party) attacked the rallies of two leftist groups, the Marxist Fedayan and the Islamic socialist Mujahidin. The attackers used rocks, clubs, knives and iron bars, leaving scores of leftists injured. In his May Day speech Khomeini accused the leftists of treason and of collusion with the U.S. The truth is that the Fedayan and the Mujahidin are best united in their hatred of the U.S., but the Ayatullah correctly perceives that the left represents a threat to his Islamic dreams...
...week, reports had circulated that 91 former associates of Tolbert would be executed. In fact, trials were already under way for 14 defendants, including the late President's elder brother Frank and the former Foreign Minister, C. Cecil Dennis. In all cases, the charge was the same: "High treason, misuse of public office, rampant corruption, and gross violation of human and constitutional rights." While the five officers on the tribunal looked on in boredom, the defendants tried to speak above the clatter of a typewriter. They had no counsel. As some of the defendants began to testify, they were...
...Tolbert had jailed early last month. One of his next acts was to order the immediate roundup of 91 officials of the Tolbert regime. Within days, eleven former ministers, including Tolbert's brother Frank, a onetime leader of the Liberian Senate, were standing trial on charges of "high treason, rampant corruption and gross violation of human rights." Several others, among them the slain President's two sons, were in hiding...
...Members of the Collegiate Association for the Research of the Principle (CARP), a group which members say owes its "inspiration" to Rev. Sun Myung Moon, began the afternoon heckling. Within an hour, they were jumping out of the crowd and toward the stage, flailing, screaming about Communist aggression, conspiracies, treason. Finally the police come to push them away. "Whose side are you on," one of the Moonies asked the cops. "Yours--but they've got a permit," a policeman answered. A tactical retreat, and then the Moonies regroup to hand out literature at the edge of the rally...
...with his own subjects by the time Charles was nine. When Charles was 11, he was sent to the House of Lords to plead for the life of the Earl of Strafford, the King's friend and servant. Parliament condemned Strafford anyway, and he was executed for high treason. At 12, he saw his first battle. At it, he left his father, who was soon captured by the Parliamentary troops, and never saw him again. When he was 19, his father was executed for high treason against the people of England...