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...ALFRED DREYFUS, a Jewish officer in the French army, was convicted of treason by a military tribunal and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. Dreyfus never ceased to protest his innocence. The evidence against him was weak from the start and was later shown to have been fabricated. But Dreyfus was a victim of virulent anti-Semitism. His name was not cleared until 1906, after a bitter and divisive struggle between Dreyfus's accusers and the republicans, socialists and anticlericalists who, led by French novelist Emile Zola, defended his innocence...
Condemned to death were one civilian, Carlos Lazo, 46, former vice president of the Central Bank, and three air force officers, all on grounds of subversion and high treason. The main charge against Lazo was that he supposedly met with officers in an effort to ferret out air force men opposed to the leftist government of Salvador Allende Gossens...
WHAT WOULD MAKE THE RABBI TURN AGAINST THE PRESIDENT? "Treason, and it would have to be proved beyond the flicker of an eyelash." Says Korff...
...explore it until last month, when congressional leaks prompted several stories (TIME, June 24). But the Secretary's dramatic threat to resign put reporters on the defensive. Many congressional leaders hurtled to Kissinger's side. Barry Goldwater charged the press with "incessant nitpicking" and accused the Washington Post of "treason" for publishing a confidential FBI document...
...such shadowy ways that no one, least of all Solzhenitsyn, was able to establish the secret police's role in these conspiracies. Since his expulsion from the Soviet Union last February, the writer has uncovered one such KGB plot that could have led to his arrest on treason charges. In the following article written expressly for TIME-the first he has published since coming to the West-Solzhenitsyn provides a detailed example of how the secret police can threaten the lives of Soviet dissidents...