Word: treasonable
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Smith was granted immunity from treason charges so he could make the trip to England. He could have been prosecuted for his role in the Rhodesian independence movement...
...North Vietnamese for expelling the boat people, the senate rejected her appointment, 28 to 5. Expressing the feelings of most of the people who had written to the senate, Republican Robert Nimmo said: "By all standards by which I was raised, Fonda was guilty of having committed treason...
...NOBLE TREASON by Richard Hanser Putnam; 319 pages...
...downs," says a U.S. official, "but it finally congealed." Moscow promised that the dissidents would soon be joined in the West by members of their immediate families. The Americans, however, failed to win the release of Anatoli Shcharansky, the leading Jewish dissident who was jailed for treason last summer. He was apparently too much of a symbol of resistance to the Soviet regime to be allowed to go free...
...arrested by agents of the MGB (now the KGB). A French citizen of Armenian descent whose father was a physical education instructor temporarily teaching in the Soviet Union, Maloumian was accused of spying for the French secret service. He was first condemned to death, but was later convicted of treason, despite his foreign nationality, and sentenced to 25 years at hard labor. In early 1956, when Soviet authorities were cutting down the Gulag population as part of the destalinization drive, Maloumian was informed by the warden of Taishet, a prison in eastern Siberia, that his arrest had been a mistake...