Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be determined in Tel Aviv, Hofi insisted that, "we must bring them to a point which will not produce a cease-fire but a surrender." Air Force Major General Mordechai Hod agreed: "This time we must force them to the peace table. How much we will have to punish them to achieve this is unclear at this point...
Also troubling is the problem of oil blackmail by the Arabs. The Arabs are almost certain to make the U.S. the scapegoat for any Israeli military successes. The oil-producing Arab states now have both the wealth and the will to punish the U.S. by shutting off oil supplies. Only 7% of the oil consumed in the U.S. presently comes from the Middle East, though that figure is expected to rise to as high as 50% by the 1980s. Much of the talk about oil may well be bluff, but the U.S. can no longer afford to ignore...
Israeli generals almost immediately announced that their troops were being mobilized for a counterattack to repulse the Arab attackers from the territory Israel occupied in 1967 and to punish them for launching...
...committee concluded that impeachment was intended by the Constitution not as a way to punish malefactors, but only to remove a man from an office he has abused while occupying it. Since whatever crime Colfax had committed occurred while he was Speaker, he could not be impeached...
...half hour marathon, and only five hours after the bust, voted over-whelmingly to stage a three-day strike against the University. The striking students demanded that police not be brought onto the campus again, that all criminal charges against protestors be dropped and that the University punish the protesters with nothing stronger than probation...