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Silber's opponents charge that his dictatorial actions have turned B.U. into a place "more like Iran under the Shah or Chile under the Junta than like an institution of higher learning," in the words of one critic. They charge him with using tenure, promotions, and salaries to punish his opponents on the faculty in a systematic effort to stamp out dissent. They accuse him of censoring student publications and the student radio station. Most recently, they protest his effort to fire or suspend five of his staunchest critics on the faculty for teaching classes off-campus or making them...
...used tenure and promotions as political tools to punish his critics. Often overriding departmental recommendations, the central administration has frequently denied salary increases to Silber's critics...
Indeed, such a move by the U.S. would scarcely be without precedent. A handful of Marines, for example, were landed in Tripoli in 1801 to punish the Barbary pirates, and a century later some 2,500 American servicemen were rushed to China to help put down the Boxers who had been attacking diplomatic missions in Peking. It was in part to protect American lives that Dwight Eisenhower dispatched Marines to Lebanon in 1958, and Lyndon Johnson sent them to the Dominican Republic in 1965. In Washington's most recent use of force, Gerald Ford ordered U.S. units to retake...
Immediately a storm of protest broke out. President Carter threatened to punish oil companies if Congress failed to pass a stiff windfall tax on profits from oil decontrol. House Speaker Thomas (''Tip'') O'Neill called the profits ''sinful,'' while James G. Archuleta, head of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers called the Exxon profits ''pornographic...
...concede it has been there for at least ten, so the brigade is not even symbolically part of the global Soviet buildup. A number of critics have argued for a kind of punitive linkage - withholding SALT if the Soviets misbehave around the world. But it is hardly logical to "punish" the U.S.S.R. for having not quite 3,000 soldiers in Cuba by allowing it to have an extra 3,000 nuclear warheads, the number that the Soviets could add to their intercontinental missiles unless the lower SALT II ceilings are adopted...