Word: punishable
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...responded by denouncing Baath as atheistic, and the cry was picked up by Moslem religious leaders as well as by Syria's merchants and landowners, worried by Baath's militantly socialist program of nationalization and land reform. Hafez replied: "Allah alone knows who are atheists, and will punish them." The Baath regime in neighboring Iraq was toppled last fall, but in Syria the Baathists continued to preach class war, pitting workers, peasants and the army against everyone else. Early this month, Baath expropriated all landholdings over 25 acres and nationalized six of the country's largest corporations...
Clayton Curb. In 1789 the First Congress, following common law practice, specifically granted federal courts the power "to punish by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of said courts, all contempts of authority in any cause or hearing before the same." In at least 50 cases, the Supreme Court has upheld this power. Only six years ago, the court held a full review of the issue in Green v. U.S., concluding that "a long and unbroken line of decisions involving contempts ranging from misbehavior in court to disobedience of court orders establishes beyond peradventure that criminal contempts are not subject...
...Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss. But Justice Tom Clark, speaking for the majority, put Barnett and Johnson squarely in the hands of the Court of Appeals, which had also enjoined them from interfering. Said Clark: "It would be anomalous for a Court of Appeals to have the power to punish contempt of its own orders without a jury but to be rendered impotent to do so when the offensive behavior happens to be in contempt of a district court as well...
...Writer Valery Tarsis, in The Bluebottle (Knopf), cavalierly compared the attitude of officials liquidating citizens to that of a man swatting flies-and was promptly sent to an insane asylum. Others have been dispatched to the hinterlands for stretches of forced "vacation" or sent into factories as workers to punish them for exuberant lapses into frankness. It is not surprising, therefore, that the spate of books coming out of Russia these days is uneven and, for Western readers, hard to assess, particularly since too many of them are wildly advertised as the one book that rocked the Soviet Union...
...real resistance, did not lose a single man. "Hole is doing a splendid service shooting every black man who cannot account for himself," one officer gaily wrote. "Nelson at Port Antonio hanging like fun by court-martial. I hope you will not send any black prisoners. Do punish the blackguards well...