Word: punished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military or paramilitary. To avoid the danger of escalation, the U.S. must have the ability to combat the Soviets and their proxies on their own turf, without resorting to higher levels of violence. In practice, the Reagan Doctrine has given the U.S. both the will and the way to punish and perhaps sometimes reverse Soviet expansionism...
...been slow to punish what it forbade. Not until the 1920s was the first Cabinet-level official convicted of bribery (former Interior Secretary Albert Fall in the Teapot Dome scandal). By the time of Watergate, the anticorruption ethic was so extensive that a number of Nixon officials ended up in jail after hush money was offered to the burglars. Noonan even suggests that the campaign against corruption may now conflict with other standards. Of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which made it a crime for companies to bribe officials abroad, Noonan remarks that "no such law had ever...
...danger is real. In 1980 General Luis Garcia Meza seized control of Bolivia in what came to be called the Cocaine Coup. One of his first acts was to release drug mafiosos from jail. He proceeded to have the police records of cocaine traffickers destroyed and to punish those who disagreed with his policy. His army meanwhile pocketed millions of dollars in bribes and payoffs from drug dealers. In despair, local U.S. drug enforcers closed their office. As soon as Siles brought back democracy in 1982, however, the fight against drugs resumed. The DEA reopened its office and President Reagan...
...according to all the information currently on the public record, there is no evidence that Harvard took any positive action to investigate the case or to punish Hibbs. Rather, there is reason to believe that Harvard may have been impelled by threats of further action by one of the two women involved or by MIT itself to release the 97-word statement...
...heavy drinking, philandering and, among diplomats, smuggling Western consumer goods--their peers are supposed to recall them to righteousness. The party had a series of weapons for these situations, ranging from a slap on the wrist, vygovor (a reprimand), to expulsion. But the party prefers to redeem rather than punish. The higher a transgressor's rank, moreover, the greater the tendency to cover up his misdeeds...