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Students began boycotting the committee only a few weeks after its inception, charging that its charter--the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities passed by the Faculty in 1969--was vague enough to allow the committee to punish students for their political beliefs using hearsay evidence and without right of appeal...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: CRR Boycott Cracks | 12/6/1980 | See Source »

...Majlis resolution began with an invocation: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful," and it ended with a strong warning: if the U.S. dragged its feet in meeting the demands, the Administration would have only itself to blame if Iran should "punish the criminals," i.e., the hostages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hope for the Hostages | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...revolutionary consumed by his cause. He swears in the face of his torturers as they probe him with electric shocks; days after finishing five years in prison, he resumes dangerous underground activities; to embarrass the government, he begs the jury hearing his case to punish him with a death sentence. In his moral perfection, Alekos transcends us all, just as he transcends his biographer, leaving the reader humiliated, numb, outside...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Of Love, Pain and Death | 10/28/1980 | See Source »

...early days of the war, covertly cooperated with Iraqi forces to the extent of giving them the use of base facilities and transit rights for warplanes. That aid and comfort is thought to have dried up as the safety of the oil was placed above the desire to punish Iranian mullahs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: On the Fretful Sidelines | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...founders and ordering the discharge of hundreds of government employees. Doe-who has kept his master sergeant stripes-dispatched his commanding general to collar Weh Syen. Doe, a member of the Krahn tribe, then toured the eastern provinces and personally assured the people that he would severely punish any other wayward council members. Doe's blunt warning to his colleagues: "If you get caught-hey, you might not live to tell the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Working to Restore Confidence | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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