Word: draconianism
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...Draconian Directives. As Public Affairs Chief of the U.S. European Command, Ellis conceives AFN broadcasts to be an obedient arm of U.S. policy. From his office in Stuttgart has come a steady stream of Draconian directives, all in the interests of what he calls "preventive maintenance." In other words, Ellis decides in advance how AFN will play a sensitive story. In reporting the recent 35,000-man U.S. troop cut in West Germany, for example, he instructed AFN not to use "cut" or "withdrawal"; "redeployment" was the proper word. No longer could AFN refer to the National Liberation Front...
...Draconian Draftsmanship. The casus belli was posed by Hershey's celebrated letter of Oct. 26, advising the nation's 4,081 draft boards to induct any draftdeferred protester whose actions were not in the "national interest." The Justice Department, all too aware in 20th century terms of the legal trouble "delinquents" and their families could make, held that so clearly punitive a process seemed to be indefensible under the First Amendment. Hershey, however, is a 19th century man, unread in constitutional law but totally committed to what used to be called Americanism...
After a three-week series of negotiating sessions between Hershey and the Justice Department, mediated by the White House, Hershey agreed to exclude "lawful" protesters from his Draconian draftsmanship. Then, though it had been understood that in the interests of discretion no one would publicly elaborate on the compromise, Hershey told newsmen that he had won the fight. Justice, undone, now feels it must let the courts decide the legality of Hershey's decision...
...ethical problem regarding the proposed recipient of the heart. Obviously he is close to death, or such drastic surgery would not be contemplated. Yet his own heart must be cut out, which is tantamount to killing him, while he still retains vitality enough to withstand the most Draconian of operations. If the transplant should fail, he will certainly die. Thus the surgeons will, in effect, have killed him (as they might in any major operation), no matter how lofty their motive in trying to prolong his life and make it more satisfying...
...officer in an organization, is subject to immediate closing of probation, which is severance, either for academic or disciplinary reasons during that period. In other words, this is not what I would call mild action. But it was certainly not in the faculty's view over-reacting or Draconian...