Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born." Observing victims of fraud and a breakdown in civil justice is bad enough. But the policeman sees "the victims of physical violence. And when he turns to the courts, he discovers that criminal justice has failed [even] more completely." Such frustrations create "a determination to apprehend and punish the offender, one way or another. Conscientious law-enforcement agencies [are] stretched between their concepts of service and their devotion to the judicial system. It's a hell of a choice to have to make...
...discuss the issue. Selective Service Director Curtis Tarr views the Pentagon's needs in a different light. He testified at Sen. Kennedy's judiciary subcommittee hearing on Feb. 28 that declaring a general amnesty now would wreck the draft system because it would give some "a free ride" and punish those who have submitted to the draft...
Animal studies suggest that there may be a biological factor in maternal behavior; mothers of rhesus monkeys punish their male babies earlier and more often than their female offspring; they also touch their female babies more often and act more protective toward them...
President Nixon believes that the law should punish pot smokers. Thus it has been widely assumed that because nine of its 13 members* are Nixon appointees, the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse would rubber-stamp Administration views when it made, its recommendations to Congress. Last week, when the gist of the group's still unpublished report leaked out a month early, the skeptics were amazed. After a year of study, the commission has decided that criminal penalties for possession and for private use of marijuana should be entirely abolished...
...visible in foreign ports are often banned as "corrupting." Ashore or at sea, the sailors' activities are closely watched by the ship's zampolit (political officer), a combination cheerleader, disciplinarian and father-confessor. He is the deputy of the ship's captain, with full authority to punish any wayward salt...