Word: punished
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...Pentagon. Originally Defense Secretary Les Aspin leaned toward air strikes to punish the Serbs, while Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, counseled against any involvement unless the U.S. used overwhelming force to win complete victory. But eventually they came to Clinton united. Neither wanted to commit American ground forces. Both were willing to exempt the Bosnian Muslims from the arms embargo. They agreed that air strikes would be unlikely to accomplish ambitious goals like rolling back Serbian territorial gains. Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill A. McPeak testified that his bombers could "put out of business" most...
...motivated by bigotry. In a rare step, the Ohio chapter of the A.C.L.U. has filed a Supreme Court brief that opposes the national organization and argues that such laws are an inadmissible limitation on free speech. And while the national organization in 1990 came out against speech codes that punish bigoted remarks on college / campuses, the board voted after heated debate this month to revise its position that workplace speech could be regarded as sexual harassment only when it was directed at an individual and had "definable consequences" on such things as promotion. The new definition covers offensive language that...
...just society will go to great lengths to discourage violent crimes of hatred. Should a free society go so far as to punish the hatred as well as the violence? More than a dozen states have enacted laws that permit courts to increase the jail time for offenders whose crimes have been motivated by prejudice on the basis of such things as race, religion, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. Like the speech codes aimed at legislating civility among students on college campuses, hate-crime laws have spawned a controversy among legal scholars and interest groups. At its center...
...await evacuation, thus far in vain. Despite a World Court ruling in Bosnia's favor against alleged aggression, and the debut slated this week of NATO warplanes to enforce what so far has been a meaningless ban on military flights above Bosnian territory, there remains scant international consensus to punish Serbia for refusing to recognize a peace plan in its neighbor's year-old civil war. One increasingly vocal holdout at the U.N.: Russia, which historically has maintained close ties to Serbia...
...November the gun lobby will try to make good on its promises to punish legislators who have opposed it. After the New Jersey vote, senate president Donald DiFrancesco, a Republican who initially supported repeal of the assault-weapon ban, set up a campaign fund to assist legislative candidates that the NRA had targeted for defeat. To make sure the organization got the message, he made the first contribution himself -- $10,000 that the NRA had contributed to his own campaign fund over the past two years...