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...When the darn was being planned in 1956, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser won pledges of $268 million in assistance from the World Bank, the U.S. and Britain. But when Nasser began talking about seeking funds from Moscow too, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles decided to punish him by revoking Washington's pledge. Britain and the World Bank thereupon also reneged. Moscow moved in with a flourish, eventually lending Cairo $554 million of the dam's $800 million cost. The Russians also supplied 2,000 technicians to work with 35,000 Egyptian laborers...
...group gave loud approval to a statement read to the assembly by Howard Zinn, professor of government at Boston University, which charged that the indictments "are intended to punish these individuals for their anti-war activities...
...prisoners survive by selling their blood or bodies. To blot out the place, they sniff glue and gobble smuggled pills. Some mornings, 200 men are too stoned to work. Since gambling is pervasive, loan sharks top the prison pecking order. They charge 50¢ per dollar a week and swiftly punish defaulters. In a single month last summer, Cummins recorded 19 stabbings, assaults and attempted rapes. The worst of it is the privacy-robbing barracks, where 100-bunk rooms house all types, from harmless chicken thieves to homicidal sadists, and the young spend all night repelling "creepers" (rapists...
They suggested that the indictments are an effort of the Nixon administration to "punish" Massachusetts for the Shea bill which exempted Massachusetts servicemen from duty in Vietnam. The Supreme Court refused to hear the Massachusetts case...
...time limit on ratification by the Bundestag. If the treaties of Moscow and Warsaw remain unratified for more than a few months, however, Bonn's relations with the Soviets and Poles are bound to deteriorate. Soviet diplomats have privately warned that Moscow will "punish" the West Germans if they do not follow through on the treaty. By punish, the Russians most probably mean that they would put the old German card back into play to block Bonn's overtures to other East bloc countries. But Brandt is hoping that the Soviet impulse will be offset by Moscow's hunger...