Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later served for 15 months as the Con o's Premier, and still commands wide support in the country. After Mobutu seized power in a bloodless army-backed coup 21 months ago, he forced Tshombe into permanent exile, later had him sentenced to death in absentia for high treason. Mobutu sees the hand of Tshombe in every disturbance in the Congo, is convinced that he is plotting a comeback...
DISSENT-OR TREASON? (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Dr. John Blum, chairman of Yale's history department, reviews the anti-Viet Nam-war movement in the U.S. Film clips of demonstrations and talks with the protesters-plus interviews with some decidedly pro-Viet Nam G.I.s in the field to give the other side of the argument...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Yul Brynner, as a strong-willed Arab nationalist, awaits execution for treason in Escape from Zahrain...
Until recently, Americans could lose citizenship for anything from treason to revolution to serving in a foreign army or government. In 1963, on procedural grounds, the Supreme Court threw out a provision withdrawing citizenship from those who flee the country in wartime to escape the draft. In 1964 it exempted naturalized Americans who return to their native countries for three or more years...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Dissent-or Treason?" examines the moral aspects of protest in the U.S., focusing on the current anti-Viet Nam war demonstrations. Excerpts from speeches by President Johnson and Secretary Rusk, comments from prominent hawks and doves, plus a review of protest in the U.S. by Historian Henry Steele Commager...