Word: punishable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitutional rights, or to set upon and murder innocent citizens, white or black--then such persons can be adequately dealt with under our present system of laws, if their guilt can be established. The frightening aspect of Communist or Klan control laws is that they permit the government to punish people without actually proving such guilt--and by merely satisfying legislators that the organizations to which they belong are "subversive...
...month only because the last-minute murder of three policemen persuaded the Governor to veto it. Last week it was being discussed by the legislatures in Illinois, Vermont and New York, where an influential bipartisan commission called execution "an act of supreme violence" and argued that New York can punish murder "without resort to barbarism of this kind...
...Instead, he passed the buck to two faculty committees that had been set up to handle problems of student conduct in border line areas between scholarly discipline and lawbreaking. But in this case both refused to act. Regent Carter telephoned Kerr again, told him that if he did not punish the offenders, the regents would do so. Kerr thought that left him too little room to maneuver. He and the able new head of the Berkeley campus, Acting Chancellor Martin Meyerson, debated a bit, then told Carter that they both intended to resign...
...specific solution is not important, but Americans must find some way to prevent and punish murder in the Deep South...
...even more burning issue between the Joint Chiefs and the Administration is over extending the war in Viet Nam. The Chiefs are unanimous in their opinion that the U.S. and its Vietnamese allies should 1) try to interdict Viet Cong supply lines in North Viet Nam and 2) "punish" the North Vietnamese by air attacks on military and industrial installations so as to let them know, in Wheeler's words, that "they have to pay a price for their activities." The Joint Chiefs realize that such action might bring the Communist Chinese into even more active participation...