Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Piracy. At Cuba's insistence, the agreement now being shaped covers both airplanes and ships. The U.S. has been pressing for extradition or "severe" local punishment of hijackers. Cuba has agreed to "severe" local punishment but has not spelled out its view on extradition; up to now, it has always rejected U.S. pleas for extradition. For its part, the U.S. has agreed to punish severely Cuban refugees who commit piracy at sea or in the air, and to help prevent exile groups from creating "incidents" with Cuba...
...plans to murder several celebrities (Elizabeth Taylor's eyes were to be mailed to an ex-husband; Frank Sinatra was to be flayed alive). Trial Judge Charles H. Older, who had previously prohibited lawyers and others involved from giving out information on the case, decided to punish the source of the leak. He asked Farr to identify the offender. The reporter promptly refused, claiming immunity under Section 1070 of the California Evidence Code, which protects newsmen from contempt citations for keeping sources confidential. There, apparently, the matter ended...
...human heart. In conflict with power needs, most people push themselves through emotional hoops to maintain their claim to innocence. Oliver, another patient with rotten parents, had to get out of bed and dress according to a precise procedure. He believed that if he missed a step, God would punish his family. This ritual gave him a feeling of power, while allowing him to blame God for any mishap that might befall his parents...
...that the CRR members feel it is impossible to be fair. This belief, unconscious as it might be, probably led to their decision to convict Ellen Messing, but not to punish her for the inequities of a Resolution she had meeting to do wish
Bowersock said last night that although the CRR decided not to punish Messing for her second violation, she will receive a one-year suspension if she attends graduate school at Harvard...