Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something different and better, that he ought to move himself to see her. He's always had an inviolable thin honesty, and it suggests that what he may go on to do (which is well worth doing), is to expose the sorry evasive figure who was so welcomingly forgiven in the seventies...
...accordance with China's usually stern practice, sentences have been tough. At least five people have been executed in the past month for crimes ranging from embezzlement to murder. Even in cases involving juvenile offenders, the courts show little leniency. Rejecting arguments that teen-age criminals should be forgiven for their mistakes, the Tianjin Daily sternly warned: "All criminals must be punished according to the laws...
...allowing the Shah to remain in the U.S. for the full term of chemotherapy, the Carter Administration runs the risk of offending the stern new rulers of Iran, who have neither forgotten nor forgiven the excesses of the Shah's regime...
...forgiven, America, but you may never know...
When Kissinger says that, even with the benefit of hindsight, he is not sure what he should have done seven years ago, the Carter Administration can be forgiven for some puzzlement about how to proceed now, as it tries to deal prudently with undemocratic, potentially unstable regimes...