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...surprise that this latest attempt to penalize nonregistrants is equally arbitrary. The major problem with the new regulation is that it will punish only those students who must rely on federal aid and will not affect more affluent nonregistrants, on whom the government cannot use the student aid level...
...sentenced to eight years for attempted murder, but Johnson wanted more. She filed a civil suit against him for $6 million in damages. Six jurors concluded that even this sum was not enough; they decided that Tucker owed Johnson $8 million for what he had done. "I wanted to punish him. I wanted to strike back," said Johnson last week...
...been wrong to impose the sanctions or, as the high-strung Alexander Haig might have done, threaten to quit if the policy was not reversed. Instead, he acted more like a reassuring but lucid tutor with Reagan. He knew that the President would not abandon his wish to punish the Soviets. Shultz's basic stance was that restrictions on the export of advanced Western technology to Moscow, if the ban had the support of all NATO allies, would far more effectively prick the Soviet economy than would a problematic pipeline-equipment embargo. The Secretary raised the issue of American...
...chemical weapons, but forbade these methods if they "entirely escape from the control of man" or cause the "annihilation of all human life within the radius of action." Pius, who denounced saturation bombing even before the inferno of Hiroshima, declared that wars of righteous aggression, in order to punish an offense or to recover territory, could no longer be justified because modern weaponry had become so devastating. Wars of national self-defense, however, were still permitted...
...university argues that the board of regents did not cut funding to punish the newspaper, but rather because many students asked for a choice in funding...