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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn arrived in Cavendish with his wife Natalya and four sons in 1976, some 2 1/2 years after he had been charged with treason and forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union. Settling in at a 50-acre mountain retreat, purchased with royalties from Western publications of his works, the author of such books as Cancer Ward and The First Circle gradually disappeared from headlines and public view. Admiring pilgrims hoping for a glimpse of the 1970 Nobel laureate -- as well as suspected KGB snoops -- were discouraged by the natives and by an impressive security system ringing the enclosure...
...found. "People assumed that if you were in Beirut you couldn't possibly be Jewish," he writes. "After all, what Jew in his right mind would come to Beirut?" But members of his faith knew what Friedman was, and some were quick to interpret fact finding as heresy or treason. Why? The author answers, "I had helped to inform the Jews of New York City of the less-than-heroic behavior of the Israeli army in Lebanon, the Sabra and Shatila massacre and other unsettling stories...
...frowned when it branded him a traitor and called for his execution. When Ochoa finally rose to speak, he denied none of the charges: consorting with international drug dealers, illicitly trafficking in everything from cocaine and diamonds to ivory and sugar, shaming the Cuban revolution with acts of high treason. "I betrayed our country, and one pays for treason with one's life," Ochoa said. "If the death sentence comes, which of course could mean the firing squad, I promise you that my last thoughts will be of Fidel and this great revolution...
...stirred during ten turbulent years as leader of Iran. Even after his burial, Khomeini excoriated his enemies in the outside world, raging in his will against "the atheist East" and "the infidel West," branding Jordan's King Hussein a "criminal tramp," accusing the leaders of Egypt and Morocco of "treason," and denouncing the U.S. as an "inborn terrorist" organization...
...Hungarian political analysts speculate that the government wanted him out of the way before it rehabilitated the reputation of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary at the time of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Kadar is said to have given evidence at the trial of Nagy, who was hanged for treason. Others say that the party, by breaking with "Kadarism," wished to underline its pro-reform stance...