Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common complaint among many Negroes-and more than a few whites -is that U.S. justice is all too often far from colorblind. Three recent criminal cases, all involving youthful Negro defendants and all leading to harsh sentences, have prompted black and white citizens alike to protest the severity of the courts...
...They also complained of the unsanitary conditions of the stockade. The Army charged the 27 men with mutiny, and at the first of a series of courts-martial, three of them received sentences of up to 16 years (TIME, Feb. 21). There was an immediate public outcry at the harsh sentences, which were subsequently reduced to two years by the Army Judge Advocate...
...strength, nor have they been able to win over the bulk of the 944,000 Arabs living on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Good intelligence and highly sophisticated, hard-hitting defense tactics stop most guerrilla activity on the perimeter of the Israeli heartland. Harsh retaliation by frequent air and artillery and occasional ground strikes has pushed fedayeen bases away from the 1967 borders. Sabotage and terrorism have dwindled in recent months. The Gaza Strip, that beehive of Palestine nationalism, is as quiet as it has been in years, most likely because of growing prosperity...
...throne. The rising intensity of sticks beaten rapidly together, a rhythmic tapestry of violence, suggests a neighborhood gang rumble. One knows in one's slightly chilled bones that this war is not going to be fought on the dap pled green fields of Eton but on the harsh black asphalt of a city playground...
...Instead, the Faculty placed those five on probation along with the 52 other Paine Hall demonstrators and suspended the "required to Withdraw" sentences until the five students graduated: Faculty members disagreed on the exact meaning of the Faculty's action. Some claimed it was a repudiation of an "overly-harsh" stand by the Ad Board, while others said that it was no repudiation at all, since the Ad Board was not empowered to recommend the kind of suspended sentences the Faculty approved...