Word: treasonous
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...half a dozen sections of Dacca. The war was on. Swiftly, Yahya outlawed the Awami League and ordered the armed forces "to do their duty." Scores of Awami politicians were seized, including Mujib, who now awaits trial in remote Sahiwal, 125 miles southwest of Islamabad, on charges of treason; the trial, expected to begin in August, could lead to the death penalty...
...endorsement of Minh as a man whom both Hanoi and the National Liberation Front would be willing to live with, at least for a while. As yet, Minh is not saying whether he would be willing to live with the N.L.F.-perhaps because it could get him arrested for treason. "It is too early to talk of my program now," Minh told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud in an interview in his modern Saigon villa last week. "If I were to say I favor a coalition government, I might find myself in exile in Bangkok again." During his 90-minute talk...
...protagonist is 25-year-old Daniel Lewin, whose parents, Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, were executed for treason. He and his younger sister Susan were adopted by the Lewins, kind, intelligent people who raised them quietly and conventionally. But there is no appeasing outraged memory. In 1967, when he is supposed to be writing a doctoral dissertation, Daniel is actually compiling a bizarre family history: his parents' ordeal, his blasted childhood, Susan's furious, futile rebellions...
Kudirka suffered a harsher fate. Last week the Lithuanian Supreme Court in Vilna sentenced the sailor to ten years in a prison camp for treason...
Separate Development. If they had any say in the matter, the 12 million native Taiwanese would undoubtedly prefer a government of their own-though most of them are of mainland Chinese stock (200,000 are aborigines, chiefly Malay). It is considered treason for them to talk of independence, but their case rests on the fact that Taiwan was ruled as a fully integrated province of China for only 13 years-from 1886 to 1895, and 1945 to 1949. Thus the island has in effect been separated from the mainland for more than 70 years-and an international doctrine of "separate...