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Thus says the LORD of hosts, "I will punish what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came out of Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have, do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. (1 Samuel...
...speech last week, Reagan once more declared ringingly that "the American people will not accept martial law [in Poland]. They demand that Lech Walesa and the political prisoners of Solidarity be set free." But the Administration is still unable to win allied cooperation in any measures that would really punish Moscow for its role in the Polish repression...
...deterrence were to fail and the Soviets fired the first shot, the SIOP is intended to give the President an elaborate array of carefully calibrated choices for retaliation. The task would be twofold and exquisitely difficult: on the one hand, to react in a way that would both punish the Soviets for what they had done and limit their ability to do more, while at the same time to avoid overreacting, so as not to provoke an all-out follow-up attack in which the Soviets throw everything they have...
...technical skills to lighten weighty social themes. His best narrrative trick is to keep the public Stürm und Drang at bay and focus on the private lives laid bare by pervasive surveillance. Suspense takes a back seat. Somewhere, hazily defined terrorists are poised to punish Tolm for his real and imagined sins of omission. Will the assault be by cake bomb, a flight of mechanical birds stuffed with explosives or a mysterious boy with a "bomb in his head"? Who will attempt to kill Tolm, where and when, is not so important as how this highly concentrated...
...least as far back as England's sporadic naval blockades of France during the Napoleonic era. In this century trade sanctions have become the warfare of first resort. The U.S. and such international bodies as the League of Nations and the United Nations have employed embargoes to punish Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain and many other countries. In almost every case these tac tics failed dismally because the target nations found new trading partners or willing smugglers to get around the restrictions. Concludes John Letiche, professor of international economics at the University of California at Berkeley...