Word: treasonous
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Inside the party, meanwhile, the newest trend is sternly anti-reform. Hard- liners calling themselves the Communist Initiative Movement met in Moscow at the end of June to demand that the "bourgeois leadership" -- meaning Gorbachev & Co. -- be expelled and even brought to trial on charges of "high treason...
Roughly half the Politburo's 26 former members are under investigation for possible treason, corruption and abuse of power. But court inquiries have been hampered by a shortage of investigators, legal questions about what exactly constituted crime in the east, and missing evidence. Alexander Schalck- Golodkowski, 58, formerly in charge of the foreign-exchange procurement agency, is being probed for fraud in the disappearance of $13 billion in East German government funds. Prosecutors have been stymied because a ton of files were hastily shredded after Schalck-Golodkowski fled to the West in 1989 to escape arrest by East German reformers...
...inheritors of urbanity and indulgences. They belong to garden and bridge clubs; they have exceptional houses, servants, luxuries -- and woes. A Glimpse of Scarlet (HarperCollins; 200 pages; $18.95) watches a divorced mother betrayed by her son's prep school roommate; a man's failing eyesight turn into a "treason of the body"; wavering between wife and mistress, a publishing executive experiences moral vertigo in his ordered world; a wife holds her husband up to public ridicule, only to have things turn around as soon as they are alone in the bedroom. Once people like these were the focus of Henry...
...this talk, the Communists charge the parish priest with rigging the miracle to trick the faithful and discredit the ruling authorities. A more sophisticated conspiracy theory has the Communist Party plotting and executing the phenomenon so as to expose the church to ridicule, as well as charges of treason against the state. And there is a third possible interpretation: that the hand of God actually reached down into that obscure church to point muddled humans in the right direction...
SUDS raises the dark spectre of accusations of treason upon those who have reservations about the war. "USA," they say, "Love it or leave it." We offer a third alternative--improve...