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...disgusting that American citizens would sell national-security information for a few thousand dollars. The only way to prevent this is to prosecute the KGB's U.S. agents for treason and sentence them to death...
While Mugabe continues to call for reconciliation, there are rumors that Nkomo may yet be charged with subversion or even treason. Nkomo says, a bit disingenuously, "I am only trying to protect my people and therefore do good for my country." The sharp-tongued Eddison Zvobgo, a minister in the Mugabe government, says Nkomo's real trouble is that he suffers from "power-denial psychosis." An Ndebele proverb puts it another way: "The beast is without power." Against the strong political base of Mugabe and the might of his army, Nkomo has little leverage except perhaps the capacity...
...eight-point directive issued Dec. 15, he ordered an end to unlawful arrests and urged respect for human rights, private property and individual privacy. Last week Khomeini took yet another popular step: he had the leadership of the small pro-Moscow Tudeh (Communist) Party arrested on charges of treason and espionage for the Soviet Union. Khomeini, said an Iranian clergyman, seemed to be telling his people, "As long as you don't oppose me, do whatever pleases...
Though Bercovich has never lived in Boston, his arrival at Harvard in the fall will in a strange way be kind of a homecoming. His "idealistic" mother, he said, named him after Sacco and Vanzetti, the famous anarchists who were executed for treason in Boston during the "red scare" of the 1920s. "In a way," Bercovich chuckled, "I'll be returning to the scene of the crime...
...MOST DRAMATIC series of letters involves MacLeish's efforts to free Ezra Pound. In 1955 he visited Pound in St. Elizabeth's mental hospital, where Pound had been held since the war as unfit to stand trial for treason. He writes to Hemingway, "What I saw made me sick and I made up my mind I wouldn't rest till he got out. Not only for his sake but for the good name of the country: after ten years it was beginning to look like persecution." For the next few years, MacLeish worked through his contacts in the Justice...