Word: punish
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...commitment to man's inalienable rights with the Calvinist belief in an ultimate moral right and sinful man's obligation to do good. These articles of faith, embodied in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution, literally govern our lives today. Meanwhile the compulsions to repent and punish sin remain just beneath the skin, erupting like fever blisters in times of stress and producing a rash of reforms. Inevitably the compulsions tend to disappear as quickly as they surface, leaving the root causes of trouble intact. As Democratic Congressman Leon Panetta of California puts it, "There comes a backlash...
Still more disturbing is that these debased arguments in defense of the protestors inexcusable tactics find a sympathetic ear among many members of the faculty and administration, who are therefore reluctant to punish them. This is what accounts for the fact that it has for some time been impossible to penalize this kind of behavior with anything like the degree of severity that it deserves and that would be necessary to deter it. If the penalty were losing one's Harvard degree, one can be sure there would be very few if any martyrs willing to pay such a price...
...punish the Sandinistas for their disobedience, we have decreed the contras. In arming and pushing the contras into battle against the Sandinistas, the United States has created a scenario. If we support the contras, we place our national interest in their hands. If the contras cannot win, as no one in Washington or Managua expects them to do by themselves, sooner or later the United States has to send troops to their rescue or sacrifice our credibility as an ally. If we rescue effectively, we have to invade...
...America's European allies. It is they, rather than the U.S., that are most uneasy at the turn of events. After years of publicly decrying the proliferation of nuclear weapons on their soil, some Europeans may be reminded of Oscar Wilde's dictum: "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." To the West's discomfort, Gorbachev is zestfully playing a role no previous Soviet leader has essayed: the man who keeps saying yes. The General Secretary first astonished NATO last month by accepting Reagan's zero-option proposal to scrap all intermediate-range Soviet and American...
...Pakistan. When Jimmy Carter offered to restore some assistance following the Soviet invasion of neighboring Afghanistan, Zia contemptuously told the ex-peanut farmer that the funds would not be missed because they amounted to "only peanuts." In recent weeks there have been renewed cries in Congress to punish Pakistan for continuing to defy U.S. nonproliferation policy. John Glenn, leader of the movement in the Senate, warned last week that Pakistan's nuclear weapons-building capability "has the possibility of setting off a regional nuclear arms race...