Word: treasonous
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...betray the revolutionary cause and, in the bargain, to arrange for the surrender of his stronghold at West Point. Sir Henry needs a liaison between himself and Arnold to conduct negotiations both delicate and possibly dangerous; the task falls to Clinton's adjutant, Major John Andre. Arnold's treason is a familiar story, but British Journalist Anthony Bailey retells it from an intriguing angle. Here is the brave but unlucky major, captured, his mission exposed, awaiting his fate and talking to pass the time. He asks his American guards to consider the principles that governed his behavior: "It seems...
...highly critical of Shin Bet, the domestic security service that only six months earlier had been cited for improprieties in the deaths of two Palestinian bus hijackers. The court ordered former Lieutenant Azat Napso, 32, released immediately from prison, where he had spent 7 1/2 years on espionage and treason charges that were brought by Shin Bet but later found to be unsubstantiated. The conviction was overturned because the agency employed illegal interrogation methods and lied about them to the military courts that originally tried Napso. Attorney General Yosef Harish has launched an investigation into these acts. The probe...
Author Chapman Pincher charges in a new book, Traitors: The Labyrinth of Treason, that Oldfield was a homosexual. Last week Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirmed that the spy chief had admitted to her before his death in 1981 "that he had from time to time engaged in homosexual activities." Thatcher stressed that "there was no reason whatsoever to suggest that security had ever been compromised...
...Masabata Loate, a leader of the 1976 antiapartheid student uprising, was slain with axes and knives near her Soweto home after serving a five-year prison term for treason. Loate, 29, had angered the comrades by speaking out strongly against necklaces...
Sparg, who is white, then identified herself as a guerrilla of the African National Congress, the outlawed antiapartheid political organization. Last week, dressed defiantly in the A.N.C.'s colors of black, green and yellow, she pleaded guilty to charges of treason, arson and attempted arson and was sentenced to 25 years in prison...