Word: treasonably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ugly power struggle between Cuba's old-line, Moscow-oriented Communists and the unorthodox Fidelistas, whom they deride as "adventurers." In recent months, four Moscow wingers have been sacked by Fidelistas from high government posts, while more than 70 army officers have been jailed on charges ranging from treason to conspiring to assassinate Castro...
Culpepper's play, Treason at West Point, a chronicle play about Benedict Arnold, will be given a full seven-night run at the Loeb Drama Center in May, with the Anderson trust fund underwriting the production costs...
Stanley cited Premier Castro of Cuba, former President Betancourt of Venezuela, Premier Ben Bella of Algeria, former President Paz Estenssoro of Bolivia, and President Sukarno of Indonesia as Communists supported by the U.S. "I ask myself," he said, "'Were we fooled, or was it treason?' It's enough to make you become a right-wing extremist...
Died. Dr. Winfred Overholser, 72, specialist in criminal psychiatry and longtime superintendent (1937-62) of Washington's St. Elizabeths (mental) Hospital, who believed that the mentally ill are not responsible for their crimes, in 1957 won a point when he persuaded the U.S. Government to drop treason charges against Poet Ezra Pound, testifying that Pound's wartime broadcasts "were the result of incurable insanity"; after a long illness; in Washington...
...Near Treason. But Davis is remembered because he was President of the Confederacy. Strode, listing his achievements, writes that he was "perhaps the only political chief in history who successfully organized a new nation in the course of pursuing a mighty war." But did he? Davis' constitution, with its emphasis on states' rights, left it up to the individual Governors to contribute troops and supplies only as they felt inclined. The Governors of Georgia and North Carolina particularly were obstructive to a degree that, in a more centralized nation, would have been treason. Governor Joseph E. Brown...