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...government also was heartened by the way Reagan handled the topic of human rights, a prickly issue between the two countries since the days of the Carter Administration. South Korean President Chun Boo Hwan sees dissent as grist for the propaganda mills of North Korea and thus tantamount to treason. Reagan has some sympathy for Chun's position, and during the visit he applauded South Korea for its "continued progress toward the broadening of democracy." At one point, during a reception at the U.S. embassy, the President's text called for him to mention "human rights." Aware that...
...power, Iskander creates a Federal Security Force and appoints as its head a man with appropriate powers: "The clairvoyancy of Talvar Ulhaq enabled him to compile exhaustive dossiers on who-was-bribing-whom, on conspiracies, tax evasion, dangerous talk at dinner par ties, student sects, homosexuality, the roots of treason. Clairvoyancy made it possible for him to arrest a future traitor before he committed his act of treason, and thus save the fellow's life...
...Seated in front of a purple-and-white Salvadoran flag, three men nervously confessed to past membership in the Salvadoran Communist Party. That very morning, said the news announcer, the right-wing group that sent the tape had condemned the three men to death on a charge of "high treason." The terrorists then strangled the men and a female doctor, and afterward dumped the bodies in a San Salvador parking...
Even with 500 British special constables skulking outside, the 80,000 Nationalists (physically weak and mentally timid though they are) felt safe behind their barricade. They had met with the announced purpose of committing High Treason en masse, assembled as did 65 American colonists in 1776 to defy a British sovereign with a Declaration of Independence. Only 3,000 of them were official delegates but all 80,000 shrilled applause as Pandit Nehru cried: "We are now in open conspiracy to free India...
...very interesting story of September 27 about Professor Sacvan Berkovitch and the origin of his first name. The Crimson stated that the famous anarchist Sacco and Vanzetti, "were hanged in Boston for treason during the Red Scare." They were not indicted for treason but for killing a guard during an armed robbery, and they were not hanged but electrocuted, as I have first-hand reason to know...