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Once again, those would-be statesmen on Capitol Hill are trying to micromanage American foreign policy and legislate morality in another country -- something Congress does often and badly. Over the next several weeks, the Senate will almost certainly pass a bill that would punish China for its internal tyranny and irresponsible international behavior by restricting its trade with...
...spite of the presumption that the fundamentalists were behind the killing, some Algerians speculated that factions inside the army could have been nervous about Boudiaf's announced intention to investigate and punish high-level corruption. Others thought members of the National Liberation Front, the socialist party overthrown by the army, might have ordered the assassination...
...suspicions are not altogether farfetched. De Klerk has been criticized repeatedly by human-rights groups for not reining in his security forces. Despite previous success in crushing illegal A.N.C. military activities, the government has notably failed to punish the perpetrators of township massacres. Says Helen Suzman, a white liberal and former Member of Parliament: "They have got to get cracking on the security forces and weed out those elements known to be against reform...
...course, Americans should not use foreign dollars as am investment crutch that allows them to consume more and invest less. This is precisely what happened during the Reagan years, and Clinton wants to fix it. But the answer cannot be to punish foreign investors. Instead, we should concentrate on another element of the Clinton plan: providing tax credits for Americans to invest in U.S. companies...
...resolution was subsequently amended to to include a category called "sexual negligence." The intent of the new category is to punish non-consentual sex, while not treating it as rape, according to Effie K. Anagnostopoulous '92 who proposed the amendment...