Word: punisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope that justice is not blind in the case of the "Billboard Bandits" [March 22] in Michigan. My verdict would be to "punish" the youths by nominating them for the Golden Fox Award being sponsored by Environmental Action, Inc., and to "sentence" the state highway officials to comply with the law by removing the remainder of the illegally situated billboards...
...sensibility, many Americans tried to turn Calley into a hero. Many others sought refuge in the oversimple conclusion that Calley was merely a scapegoat. Some echoed the argument of Calley's chief defense counsel, George Latimer, that the Army sent Calley to Viet Nam to kill and should not punish him for doing precisely that. Says Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer: "Who is at fault? The people who gave the orders or the people who fought? This question will dominate American politics for the next ten years...
...failed to take reasonable steps to ensure compliance with the laws of war. "I feel no guilt," said Westmoreland last week. "My orders were that all atrocities would be reported and investigated according to the rules of the Geneva Convention, and it is our obligation to follow through and punish those atrocities...
Decision to punish will reflect what is already an established bias for the rights of academicians to undisrupted peace and quiet over the rights of Third World people to life itself. This bias can be seen in Harvard's continuing sponsorship of Henry Kissinger, and those at Harvard who would eagerly take his place. The two rights come into conflict...
While chastising Kissinger for his involvement in Administration strategy, the letter defends his acceptability in the Harvard community. Addressing Kissinger as 'Dear Colleague,' it says in part, "We find the notion that a university or one of its units might 'punish' a member because of political differences to be completely reprehensible...