Word: treasonous
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Ever since Mandela's arrest in 1962 on charges of attempted sabotage and treason, his former deputy, Oliver Tambo, now 68, has run the A.N.C. from exile, currently in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The A.N.C. has received support from the Soviet Union, as well as some Western nations, and is increasingly co operating with the also banned South African Communist Party. The alliance has made it convenient for the Pretoria government to describe the township unrest as Communist inspired. Over the years, the A.N.C. has trained guerrilla fighters at camps in various black African countries and staged a number...
Prominence has made Tutu, 52, a ready-made focus of controversy. Some whites equate his advocacy of international economic sanctions against South Africa with treason; others view him as the only person capable of calming black anger. Most blacks respect Tutu's convictions and admire his courage. But while his appeals for an end to black-against-black violence have placated some young militants, others heed the African National Congress's calls for armed struggle...
...banks and store fronts - after television news showed two boys trying to burn one during the Kurdish new year festival Newroz, when Kurdish nationalist sentiment traditionally runs high. Even Turkey's reticent but powerful military General Staff weighed in, issuing a statement describing the incident as an act of "treason" by "so-called citizens." Civilians, too, felt scorned. "Burning the flag is a slap in our face," said Ahmet Güney, a shop clerk in Istanbul's busy Taksim district. "We must show that we will not tolerate this." Turks have always been patriotic, but the flag-waving...
...Khan's allies are. Khan was too hot to handle, so even making him the fall guy for selling Pakistan's nuclear secrets was out of the question. Instead, President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Khan and put him under house arrest in his sumptuous villa. This for an act of treason so blatant and outrageous that it has few parallels in any nation, authoritarian or not. Khan's pardon was part of a cover-up. Rama Prem Freiburg, Germany Khan has confessed to leaking Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea. The startling revelation that he may also...
...examples of 1950s film noir, Pickup highlights the disparity and paradox between the two most prominent American values of the time: individual ambition and blindly patriotic anti-Communism. In one of the film’s most potent moments, the police threateningly ask the protagonist if he knows what treason is, to which he responds with “Who cares?” Released in the year of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executions, Pickup is rife with political daring, both endangering and enabling Fuller’s career as a filmmaker...