Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows how many spooks are lurking in the shrubbery and behind potted palms in West Germany, but over the past two decades 25,000 people have reported to the authorities that they were asked to spy. In the same period, 3,500 persons have been convicted of treason or treasonous relations. Yet, instead of becoming inured to the rampancy of spooks, the West German press continues in full cry on the spy-exposé trail...
...After eleven difficult years of studying and composing in Europe, he was now hearing his works performed and praised; commissions were starting to come in. That June however, Yun and his wife vanished from their home in West Berlin. They turned up next as prisoners facing a treason trial in their native South Korea. They had been abducted by agents of the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency, who at the time were rounding up South Korean intellectuals and students by the dozen in Europe as alleged spies. The Yuns were accused of having visited North Korean officials in East Germany...
...more than all his predecessors combined. As part of a massive revision of Germany's archaic 19th century legal code, he has already deleted the prohibition of adultery and homosexuality between consenting adults and broadened the right of journalists to print hitherto classified government information without fear of treason proceedings. In addition, Heinemann counseled the Communists how to go about re-establishing a party in West Germany without running afoul of legal problems...
...humid, far from France and isolated by shark-infested waters and impenetrable jungle, Guiana was the dread, virtually escape-proof exile to which France's worst criminals were shipped. The most famous, of course, was Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army captain who was cashiered on a trumped-up treason charge. Beginning in 1895, Dreyfus spent four years, two months and 21 days in isolated confinement* before public indignation and Emile Zola's J'accuse won him new hearings and eventual exoneration. But almost 75,000 other Frenchmen served time in Guiana. Buffeted by yellow fever, malaria...
Significantly, patriotism apparently remains high. If asked what other country he might prefer, the average American still draws a blank. Rarely in the past-or present-have Americans hated America enough to commit treason, renounce citizenship, or stop longing for God's country while abroad. In that sense, patriotism thrives not only among the more demonstrative flag wavers, but also in unexpected ways among dissenters and antiEstablishmentarians. Even if the disaffected young bitterly criticize American institutions and values, they reflect the traditional patriotic view of the moral and providential nature of the American destiny. The insistence that...