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...long-awaited trial of 12 plotters accused of staging the ill-fated coup finally began in Moscow last week. The group's defense will be that its bid for power was not an act of treason but rather a patriotic effort to prevent the breakup of the U.S.S.R. While many Russians appear ready to believe them -- or at least pardon them -- the defendants could be sentenced to death if found guilty. In Russia that means a bullet to the back of the head -- an unfunny finale to one of history's most riveting farces...
...unarmed opposition is precariously united behind Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi, a human-rights activist and a bitter personal enemy of the President's. Last week each accused the other of treason as Mobutu tried to dismiss Tshisekedi, who adamantly refuses to step down. "The killings in recent weeks have only made Mobutu stronger," cautions a senior Western diplomat, who notes that the dictator's demise has often been forecast before. "He clearly calculates that the physical elimination of a few of his enemies will have a deterrent effect on the rest of the population...
...Clinton's White House staff members would be barred for the same period from lobbying any agency for which they had "substantial personal responsibility." All appointees must promise never to lobby on behalf of foreign political parties or governments -- now a common practice that Ross Perot once called "economic treason...
...government has two weeks to prepare charges of treason against Guzman and his cohorts for trial in a military court next month. A guilty verdict would undoubtedly give a political boost to President Alberto Fujimori, who already has overwhelming popular support in Peru for abolishing a do-nothing Congress and judicial system last April and now for taking an important step toward fulfilling his promise to pacify the country by 1995. With Guzman safely behind bars, progovernment candidates for constitutional congress elections in November are likely to win a majority. (See related stories beginning on page...
...Milosevic absolves himself of responsibility, how many more must die? Says a U.S. State Department official: "For him, the word compromise is a dirty word, meaning treason and surrender." Indeed, he appears to have hunkered down, convinced of his own righteousness. "We rejected the abolition of our country," he says. "If we have to be blamed for that, I am proud to be blamed for loyalty to my country." As hundreds die, thousands flee and Serbia faces international isolation, Milosevic's blame goes far beyond that...