Word: treasonous
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That's partly why the real winner last week may well have been Dole. In hindsight, his strategy looks exquisitely wise. He was the one who first agreed to end the shutdown, despite howls from the House and charges of treason from campaign rivals like Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan. By Friday, when the House reversed course, Dole not only looked statesmanlike; he had also diminished Gingrich as a rival on his right and distanced himself from his party's extremists. At the same time, he had acquired a weapon to carry through the rest of the campaign against Clinton...
Some supporters of a memorial to these Confederate soldiers claim that the mere passing of time makes such a tribute feasible. But as Martin Luther King, Jr., once pointed out, time is neutral. Has the passing of 130 years decreased the sordid nature of treason and slavery...
...memorial that intermingles Union and Confederate names also places both causes on an even moral footing. This disrespects the Union cause, equating patriotism with treason and emancipation with slavery. Had the Confederacy succeeded, would we view the result as morally neutral? Although it is tragic that so many Southern men died in the Civil War, we are glad that their Confederacy was vanquished...
...Yuzhin went back to Moscow, and in 1986, after Ames identified him as a CIA source, the KGB took him into custody. He was sentenced to 15 years for high treason. On Feb. 7, 1992, after six years under harsh conditions in the Gulag, he was another of the 10 political prisoners released from Perm-35 under Yeltsin's amnesty. Gray-haired at 53, he now lives in northern California with his wife Nadia and daughter Olga...
...exercise brings to mind a 17th century English pamphleteer named John Twyn, who published a defense of revolution. Condemned for treason, he was hanged, cut down while still alive, emasculated, disemboweled, quartered and, presumably to make absolutely sure, beheaded. A great many Americans today feel that this is just about the treatment appropriate to our journalists. Elsewhere in the world, they are in fact treated almost that way. In 1994, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 58 members of the press were assassinated and 173 were in prison in 23 countries at the end of the year...