From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]> lab > Someone who betrays their homeland but stays in their > own country is certainly a traitor or a spy, but s/he is not yet a > defector. A defector in place. BTW, the words "traitor" and "spy" are never used in regard to real persons. "Defectors in place" and "agents" are the universally accepted terms. Igor=Aryeh