Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sensing a chance at compromise -- a trait well developed in her spouse -- she cooed, "Certainly, dear, just be careful if that silly Chuck Daly decides to punish someone out of bounds...
Like most half-century-old prison fortresses, Attica was designed to confine and punish men rather than rehabilitate them. There are few opportunities for vocational training, counseling or education. In an effort to reduce tension, all correctional officers have lately attended ten hours of "conflict reduction" classes at local colleges. But as Superintendent Montanye sadly observes: "I am unable to point out any really new, progressive programs for the prisoners. And the human situation is abnormal. All we can do is bring tensions down to a level where, maybe, men can live decently...
...trials are meant not only to punish those who supported Dubcek's reforms three years ago but also to prevent any replay of that "springtime of freedom." The defendants are all party officials or intellectuals. But such revenge is costing the regime heavily among its friends abroad. Italian, British and Swedish Communist newspapers have criticized the trials, and so has the acting head of the French Communist Party, Georges Marchais. One exception: U.S. Communist Angela Davis, to whom Czechoslovak liberals appealed for help. She let it be known through a friend that in her opinion, people in Eastern Europe...
...Egypt. Some Middle East observers suspected that the Kremlin might undertake heavy-handed revenge by increasing the quota of Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel or by renewing diplomatic relations with the Israelis, which were broken off in 1967. There is not much else the Russians could do to punish Sadat. There is no sense in attempting to topple him, since Sadat has already imprisoned and displaced former Vice President Ali Sabry and other pro-Soviet Egyptians who might have replaced him. Nor are the Russians likely to strip away Egypt's military strength to the point that Israel would...
Texas attorney general Crawford C. Martin, filing one of the 16 briefs requesting the rehearings, said the Court's anti-execution ruling "constitutes a severe blow to the American jury system." He went on to say that the ruling forces the legislators to decide whether or not to punish by execution...