Word: treasonous
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...party gains power. We will win the military fight. First we will adopt a revolutionary constitution with articles that will give us the force of law to deal with the state of crisis that we are living in now. Right now we are fighting blindfolded, and with treason in certain government spheres. Once we have good military intelligence and a government that does not give cover to subversives, we can go ahead...
...Short, commander of the Army's Hawaiian department, had a field day blaming each other and Washington for unpreparedness, but since all were culpable, there was no real art in the show. The same fandango is going on in Spain these days, with the generals on trial for treason frantic to pin last year's failed coup on each other. The buck may also be passed to superiors, as Nuremburg made clear. The first buck pass was Adam to Eve to snake, who, while superior to the unhappy couple, was unable to pass the buck elsewhere. Since...
...other suspect. Assume a complication. Baldwin is now in line for a sensitive embassy post in Washington. Security people cannot approve his promotion without clearing up past questions. Ludley, now living well beyond the reach of punishment, must be persuaded to tell the truth about that distant act of treason...
...ceremony reflected renewed concern about Shcharansky, who became a world-renowned political prisoner and a symbol of official Soviet anti-Semitism following his well-publicized trial in 1978. A champion of human rights in the U.S.S.R., he had been made the victim of a trumped-up treason case. Shcharansky was accused of spying for the U.S. and sentenced to three years in prison and ten in a hard-labor camp, despite his denial and President Jimmy Carter's categorical refutation of the charges...
JOSEPH McCARTHY--America's premier Red-hunter--levelled accusations of treason at people he knew nothing about, often not even their names. He lied with such boldness that he distracted a nation and shot it full of distrust. Few regret it more than journalists. By offering the print of page-one articles and the air-time of lead stories, American news media fed McCarthy the publicity he needed. Edwin R. Bayley focuses on that process in his new book, McCarthy and the Press. In a world seemingly vulnerable to media-made images, he offers the comforting notion that today...