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...countries set about destroying the power base of Somalia's most notorious warlord, General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, beneath a hail of missile fire and cannon bursts from helicopter gunships overhead. Troops from the U.S., Pakistan, Morocco, France and Italy searched for Aidid. Prodded by Washington, the U.N. wanted to punish him for ordering an attack June 5 that killed 23 blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers from Pakistan. By last weekend, under authority of an arrest warrant issued by Howe, the U.N. forces had not caught Aidid despite house-to- house searches, but were satisfied they had him on the run. Five...
Though the Security Council could authorize military means to disarm or punish Pyongyang, any attempt to use force would be extremely tricky. Bombing a functioning nuclear facility could produce an instant Chernobyl and, probably, retaliation. "We might try to take out their nuclear capability with a scalpel," says a Western analyst in Seoul, "but they would respond with a chain...
Even if such a session doesn't make a mockery of academic rigor, advance question exams reward sloth and punish initiative. If you've loyally gone to class, you can expect a crescendo of phone calls from distant acquaintances starting in reading period and culminating two days before the exam. After a day or two the pattern becomes recognizable...
...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...
...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...