Word: treasons
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...killed?" demanded Kasavubu. "He was my friend!" shouted Foreign Minister Bomboko. "He was my friend too!" added Major General Joseph Mobutu. "He made me a colonel." Tshombe meekly mumbled regrets, hastily assented to the new plan to reassemble Parliament in Leopoldville. Unappeased. Tshombe's captors charged him with treason on ten counts, ranging from secession to bootlegging cigarettes. The 19 aides who had accompanied him to Coquilhatville were also accused...
...unexpected ridges of sand that had drifted across the runway, and crashed. Paratroopers, dropped inland, were wiped out-few prisoners were taken. The invaders from the beach never quite reached Jagüey Grande. Obviously forewarned of the general area where the landing would take place ("Someone committed treason," charged a council member), Castro had 10,000 troops on hand to meet the men coming up the track bed. Heavy artillery pinned the invaders down. The invasion ship carrying all the broadcasting equipment was sunk, and with it another landing craft. The Castro command threw its Soviet-built...
...pedestal. Last week, on a Washington television program, ex-Adman (cofounder of the high-powered agency, Benton & Bowles, Inc.), ex-Bureaucrat (OPA price administrator), ex-Governor (of Connecticut), ex-Ambassador (to India), ex-Congressman and now Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles committed the Madison Avenue equivalent of treason: he dismissed his advertising career as a youthful mistake...
After serving twelve years in prison for treason, Maine-born Spinster Mildred Gillars, 60, siren-singing "Axis Sally" of World War II, will be paroled in July, plans to work in a nunnery, possibly teaching music...
...prove that this amounted to Communism and treason, the prosecution called an "expert" from the University of Cape Town. But defense attorneys succeeded in discrediting him by getting him to identify quotations from Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther. John Milton and Thomas Jefferson as the "sort of statements that Communists make." All in all, their testimony piled up to 7,000,000 words, and the defendants logged 20,500 miles commuting on what they dubbed the "treason bus" from their homes in Johannesburg to the courthouse in the smaller city of Pretoria (where the trial was held to avoid demonstrations...