Word: treasonous
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CHARGED. WOLE SOYINKA, 62, Nigerian exile and the 1986 Nobel laureate for literature; with treason by his country's military dictatorship; near Lagos, Nigeria. The regime claims that Soyinka and 11 other dissidents were involved in a series of bombings of army sites. Soyinka fled Nigeria in 1994 and resides in various Western countries...
Horowitz, the son of parents who were both members of the Communist Party, is a former editor of Ramparts, a radical journal. In fact, he said that he had "committed treason" by publishing a encoded American document while working for Ramparts...
...Beijing opera should be reformed," he said. "But I just do not feel like watching these plays." The croissant lover who had once commented that no one could be truly civilized without having dined out was despised by radicals. His feline remark became evidence against him. Along with fascism, treason and a raft of other crimes, Deng was accused by some Red Guards of promoting...
...siblings would be well advised to mimic. During the last major power shift in China, Mao Zedong's family plummeted from privilege. His daughter was retired into obscurity, his nephew was thrown into jail, and his wife Jiang Qing, implacable enemy of Deng, was arrested, tried and convicted of treason for her role as ringleader of the Gang of Four in the brutal Cultural Revolution. She spent 13 years in prison, where she committed suicide...
...criminal. But the soldier who turns on his comrades with savage intent commits a far graver category of crime. Whether he shoots them in the back or assaults their bodies with his own, he's confusing his fellow soldiers with the foe--and the word for this is treason. When a woman can't trust her drill sergeant, neither can the nation...