Word: treasonously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days the King of England could tell you what you said was treason, and you would have to be quarantined in the Tower. But then modern man developed Freedom of Speech (which, of course, I am now enjoying, as did Jeff Wise in "Not Taking Chances," December...
...current phase of unrest in the form of the United Democratic Front (UDF), which represented millions of people in more than 600 community, church and political associations across South Africa. Within the last year, the leaders of the UDF have been rounded up and arrested. They face charges of treason...
...case is not uncommon. In addition to large numbers of the UDF leadership, other old guard figures like Albertina Sisiulu, wife of jailed nationalist Walter Sisiulu, are facing treason charges. Nobel Prize-winning Bishop Desmond M. Tutu hit the nail on the head when, in a New York Times report last week, he expressed his fear that by removing activists capable of organizing protest, the regime is running the risk of amorphous chaos in the townships...
...Dreyfus affair, the infamous turn-of-the-century case of the Jewish army officer who was sent to Devil's Island on trumped-up charges of treason, is troubling France once again. But this time the controversy involves art rather than matters of state: where to place a bronze statue of Alfred Dreyfus, who was finally exonerated in 1906. The 12-ft.-high work by the artist and sculptor Tim, a political cartoonist for the magazine L'Express, was commissioned by Culture Minister Jack Lang as part of a program to promote French sculpture. Tim wanted the bronze...
...Chinese Catholics has usurped the allegiance of more than 3 million believers, a small underground church in China, holding clandestine services in private homes, has remained faithful to Rome. A hero of this remnant has been Gong Pinmei (Ignatius Kung), the bishop of Shanghai, who has been imprisoned for treason since 1955, steadfastly maintaining his loyalty to the Vatican. Xinhua, the official government news agency, last week reported that Gong, now nearly 84, had "repented" and had been paroled after agreeing to forswear any further contact with the Vatican. Gong, the news agency said, had kissed the ring...