Word: treasonous
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...offered the option either to leave the country or to sign up with the army. Last January, after the Cardinal delivered a letter to the United Nations charging the Sandinistas with attempting to "neutralize religious activity," he was accused by Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of "high treason against the nation...
Their campaigns cost a grand total of $200. They made few speeches, avoided appearing on television, and distributed only a smattering of pamphlets. They kept quiet about their platform, which proposes mandatory testing of all Americans for AIDS and "Nuremberg tribunals" for those suspected of treason. Although the ballot in the Illinois state primary listed them as Democrats, that designation cloaked their true affiliation...
...evening, Marcos, looking tired and shaken, held his own press conference. The President charged Ramos and Enrile with treason and called on them to "stop this stupidity and surrender." He then accused the pair of taking part in a plot to assassinate him and his wife Imelda. To prove that the conspiracy was real, Marcos trotted out one of the First Lady's personal bodyguards, who "confessed" before reporters that he was to have played a role in the murder. Later, Enrile angrily dismissed the conspiracy charge as "a bunch of bull...
...February 12th, 1554, 16-year-old Lady Jane Grey and her husband, 19-year-old Lord Guilford Dudley were executed for treason at the Tower of London. Innocent pawns in a plot engineered by the influential Duke of Northumberland to alter the plan of royal succession as drawn up by the late King Henry VIII, the two young nobles were imprisoned by the allegedly rightful heir Queen Mary after a nine-day period during which Jane ruled England as Queen...
Last week Natal Attorney General Michael Imber announced, without explanation, that all charges had been dropped against twelve of the U.D.F. leaders, including Co-Presidents Archibald Gumede and Albertina Sisulu. Four black labor leaders, along with 22 U.D.F. activists in Transvaal province, still face charges of treason. But government critics now see little chance that they will be convicted. Says David Dalling of the opposition Progressive Federal Party: "The state tried to use the courts as a political weapon and had to withdraw in disarray...