Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempted political assassination, a brutal assault on Haitians waiting in line to apply for political asylum in the U.S. and a threat to close down local press organizations that report "alarmist news." They finished the week by ordering their Justice Ministry to prepare a case charging Aristide , with treason for supporting foreign intervention to restore him to power...
Haiti's Justice Ministry, on orders of the military-backed government, began treason proceedings against exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide for backing foreign intervention to restore him to power. TIME correspondent Edward Barnes, in Port-au-Prince, says the "mock trial" is yet another verbal volley designed to make Haiti's rulers look like men of action -- when all they're doing is waiting to see if the U.S. will invade. "If this were a card game," he says, "there's only one card left, and that's the ace": invasion. Meanwhile, Barnes reports, the U.S.-led embargo is proving...
...House demonstrated its get-tough mood by voting the death penalty for more | than 60 crimes, from carjacking murders to treason, as the new crime bill made its way through Congress...
...being construed by the print media. Ames is being painted as the post-ideological spy. No one has spoken of Ames' predilections for a Communist regime, or even of a pathological desire to sell out his own country as such. All attempts to explain (away) his act of treason are rooted in social science, either in economics or psychology...
...economics, one thing is clear. Ames represents a new kind of spy, not the type that James Bond movies of John Le Carre novels are made of. Neither is he a Kim Philby or a Jonathan Jay Pollard--no complex web of ideological motivations bore on his act of treason...