Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Treason charges against Honecker were dropped last March. Nonetheless, the ousted leader, who is receiving treatment for kidney cancer at a Soviet hospital in East Germany, is still under investigation for corruption and abuse of power. Late last month new potential charges surfaced: East German Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel announced that Honecker had given safe haven to Red Army Faction terrorists. Honecker and a few senior officials may eventually stand trial, but the vast majority of party members seem unlikely to suffer much. For example, Diestel has hired back, as an act of "Christian charity," 12,000 former State...
...Gorbachev, but white detractors say De Klerk is unleashing forces he cannot control. Ultraright-wing militants are already gearing for battle. Last week the Conservative Party, made up of right-wingers who eight years ago broke away from the ruling National Party because they considered it too conciliatory, brought treason charges against Mandela and two other antiapartheid leaders and demanded that they be investigated...
...name a Minister Without Portfolio to join Modrow's Cabinet. Former leader Erich Honecker was arrested and then released, being too sick to remain in jail. The homeless ex- President and his wife Margot are staying with the village pastor of Lobetal, near Berlin. Honecker will be tried for treason in March...
Following De Klerk's election, according to a Cabinet minister, the government's talks with Mandela took on real meaning. In October they worked out the release of eight political prisoners, including Walter Sisulu and other A.N.C. leaders who were convicted along with Mandela in the Rivonia treason trial a quarter-century earlier...