Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threw a Molotov cocktail through the window. The concerts were canceled, and the restaurant, Centro Vasco, a Miami institution, was shut down. "They feel like they are in a situation of war," says Miguel Gonzalez Pando, a Cuba researcher at Florida International University, "so any dissent is tantamount to treason." In the U.S., so is denying a person the right to free speech...
...Immigration" and "treason" appear on the latest poster in capital letters, followed by, "Stop buying oriental cars etc." No author or group claimed responsibility for the poster...
...breaks of his predecessor. Erich Honecker, the quintessential hardliner who ruled East Germany for 18 years, was judged too ill to stand trial, went into dignified exile in Chile, and died there in 1994. Spymaster Markus Wolf scored a similar coup, convincing a constitutional court to overturn a treason conviction and leave him free to pen a best-selling memoir. Until today's conviction, responsibility for the killings had fallen to border guards and military officials...
...eight with Anthony Mann, more than with any other director, and five of those were westerns with a cynical edge that anticipated the "dark" westerns of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. These appeared in the 1950s, when American innocence was challenged and betrayed by a worldwide conspiracy, by a treason of the knowing and elite, when even Stewart had to show a retaliating bitterness...
...national cemeteries or receiving other veterans' benefits. The bill was rushed to a vote yesterday after someone pointed out that convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was eligible to be buried in a national cemetery, since he served during the Gulf War. Under current law, only those convicted of treason, espionage or sedition can have their benefits stripped. The Senate bill would add murder to that list, and a companion bill is being readied in the House...