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Here's the proper punishment for the Oklahoma bombers [COVER, May 1]: spending the rest of their lives viewing images of their victims and hearing the sounds of the anguish and grief they have caused. To punish these criminals by death would be hollow. They must live with what they have done-24 hours a day, 365 days a year...
...Pentagon has said its policy is designed to punish only people who engage in gay sex, but it has moved to discharge several personnel based on statements about their sexual orientation...
EDUCATE AND PUNISH...
Jiang is determined to show that he is different. He has assiduously courted important political power centers like the military while putting cronies from Shanghai into top positions. Lately he has also shown a willingness to punish his enemies, real and potential, turning one of the country's periodic anticorruption drives into a purge. "The anticorruption campaign and the succession struggle are intertwined," says James Lilley, former U.S. ambassador to China and now an American Enterprise Institute fellow, "and both are heating up." Many analysts in Beijing see Jiang's hand behind a series of corruption arrests targeted...
...boatlift. But lead Cuban negotiator Ricardo Alarcon, at a meeting with TIME editors, flatly denied that Havana had threatened to encourage would-be refugees: "We haven't made the threat, Helms has made the threat." Even so, Alarcon said passage of a pending Helms bill -- a measure to punish foreigners doing business with Cuba -- could unleash "huge waves of rafters." He also attacked the Helms proposal as unrealistic, arguing that under the proposed law, even Britain's Queen Elizabeth would be denied a U.S. visa, since the United Kingdom has invested in a Cuban venture...