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...wondering where next year's votes are going to come from. Though the party did not suffer a rout and there was no consistent pattern across the U.S., the more the professionals examined the returns, the more it appears that voters, especially Republican voters, had decided to punish the G.O.P. for Watergate. Says Ronald A. Sarasin, a Republican Congressman from Connecticut, where the Democrats captured an additional 22 town halls: "Too many outstanding officials were defeated for no discernible reasons to attribute it to normal local considerations. We must not sit back and think that the Washington situation...
Efforts to treat prisoners are really only exercises in control because of the attempt to both rehabilitate and punish inmates at the same time, Brin said. This combination makes rehabilitation degrading, he said...
...pleased, or even satisfied, with the acts or omissions of his delegates or of the state itself. It does demand, however, that the acts and omissions of the state derive in some fashion from the wishes of elected officials. Accountability has meaning only if those whom we reward or punish for their behavior have indeed had some control or potential for control over the events by which we evaluate them. How futile and self-deceiving it is to "throw the rascals out," if the "rascals" are as blameless and without authority...
...will be determined in Tel Aviv, Hofi insisted that, "we must bring them to a point which will not produce a cease-fire but a surrender." Air Force Major General Mordechai Hod agreed: "This time we must force them to the peace table. How much we will have to punish them to achieve this is unclear at this point...
Also troubling is the problem of oil blackmail by the Arabs. The Arabs are almost certain to make the U.S. the scapegoat for any Israeli military successes. The oil-producing Arab states now have both the wealth and the will to punish the U.S. by shutting off oil supplies. Only 7% of the oil consumed in the U.S. presently comes from the Middle East, though that figure is expected to rise to as high as 50% by the 1980s. Much of the talk about oil may well be bluff, but the U.S. can no longer afford to ignore...