Word: treasonous
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...strong opponent of McCarthyism, Pusey is credited with upholding Harvard’s dedication to academic freedom in the face of blacklists and allegations of treason...
...fight in the Arab-Israeli war. In Lahore, Pakistan, last week a spokesman--British university graduate Abu Ibrahim--put the numbers at between 600 and 700. British authorities, however, speculated that volunteers probably amounted to a few dozen. Conservative peer Norman Tebbit suggested that it would be treason for British citizens to take up arms against Anglo-American forces. Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon warned that those who did fight for the Taliban might face prosecution should they return...
...Avnery became the first Israeli to meet with a Palestinian leader when he spoke with Yassir Arafat during the battle of Beruit. Members of the Israeli government called for his trial on charges of treason...
...keep reminding myself that a year or two earlier, these conversations would have spelled the end of this man's career, and perhaps even prison for treason. We would go through the various institutions of power, discussing who was still with Gorbachev, who had already turned against him. This week I looked back through notes of one such conversation. The military commanders have not yet gone, he said almost dreamily that April. The Communist Party has, though. And the KGB is behaving with a "strange artificial neutrality," he remarked: It no longer kept the Kremlin informed about what was going...
...military had already drawn blood that year in the Baltics. Many of its leaders were horrified at the collapse of their super power. Vladimir Kryuchkov, chairman of the KGB and later to be the moving force in the August coup, had all but accused Gorbachev of high treason in a closed session of parliament. But still, the putsch fizzled. The first ominous lull turned quickly into a baffling loss of momentum. Soon after the events, the story leaked out that the putsch leadership was less a junta than an all-day vodka party. Most of the eight leaders are said...