Word: punish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the exiled writers disputed the American decision to boycott the Soviet book fair. "Do not punish Soviet readers for the crimes of the Soviet government," pleaded the venerable German literature scholar Kopelev, 69, who had come from West Germany for the exiles' party. He recalled that people had lined up for miles to attend the foreign book exhibitions in Moscow in previous years. Novelist Yuz Aleshkovsky noted that eager readers had actually stolen many of the Western books that were shown at the Moscow fair. Said he: "When I think about the Soviet government and its wardens...
...country. He closed down U.S. and British military bases, expelled 25,000 descendants of Italian colonials, nationalized foreign banks and decreed that all signs and documents be written in Arabic. A devout Muslim, he banned liquor imports and imposed the Sharia (Islamic law), which can, for example, punish a thief by amputation of a hand. In 1970 Gaddafi's Libya became the first Arab oil-exporting country to demand substantially higher prices for crude. Around the same time, Gaddafi struck a deal with the Soviet Union, exchanging oil for what would become an arsenal of highly sophisticated weaponry...
...bill. Led by Arizona's Morris Udall, a handful of liberals had proposed an alternative one-year tax cut that was easily voted down. Said John Conyers of Michigan: "We can't out-Republican the Republicans and then beat Reagan." Other Democrats were ready to punish the party rebels, such as Texan Phil Gramm, who sat in on Democratic budget caucuses while working with the White House, and Hance, who not only co-sponsored Reagan's tax cut bill but also won $40 in a White House staff pool by correctly guessing the number of Democrats...
Anne Young, who voted with other members of the jury to convict Dr. Eugene Sherry, and Dr. Arif Hussain, former clinical fellows in anaesthesia at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Connecticut doctor Alan Lefkowitz, of rape, told a press conference that the jurors had hoped to "punish" the defendants for "having done something wrong, but not for the crime of rape...
...decision filled many lawyers -and other U.S. citizens-with misgivings. "Nobody likes Agee very much," said Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt Jr. "But in its haste to punish Agee, the court wrote an overbroad and ill-conceived opinion." Added American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer Mark Lynch: "There's nothing in the opinion that limits the ruling to former CIA agents. Spock, Coffin, Fonda, Hayden, Ramsey Clark-all these critics speaking around the world could have had their passports taken away...