Word: punished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...citizens who took part in a Tehran conference on alleged U.S. intervention in Iran. Muskie said that Carter's ban sprang from concern "about the safety of Americans traveling in a country where there is anti-American hostility." Added Muskie: "The purpose of the policy is not to punish people who violate it, but to prevent people from going." Snapped Carter when asked about Muskie's views: "I don't think Ed Muskie has any legal responsibility for determining whom to prosecute or not to prosecute...
There is a dark side to Soviet psychiatry: its misuse as a political weapon to punish dissidents, in 1970 Biologist Zhores Medvedev, who now lives in London, was committed to a psychiatric hospital on the order of his city commune. He was released 19 days later, after a wave of international protest. Medvedev had struck a deal with hospital authorities that if discharged he would write nothing about his hospitalization or the struggle to get him out; when he learned that he would have to report regularly to mental health centers for follow-up care, he and his brother, Historian...
...jurisdictional problems. Last month the attorney general for the state of California sued, among others, the mayor of Los Angeles, the entire city council, the chief of police and the board of trustees of the Los Angeles Unified School District, demanding that authorities put together some coordinated program to punish the criminals and cut down on violence and theft...
...both an objection to the showing of the film and a commitment to First Amendment liberties. There appears to be a consensus that Stork's and Hagen's judgement in this case was insensitive and irresponsible, but that it is not the business of the City of Cambridge to punish insensitivity or irresponsibility of this kind. This is, I think, a reasonable position...
...because we are asked to follow a U.S. President who dines with a rich Shah and kicks an ill ex-Shah around, who kisses the Soviet party boss on both cheeks, knowing that millions of Europeans are held in slavery by that man, and who now wants us to "punish" the U.S.S.R. because it's election time...