Word: punishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military in line. The armed forces have already chafed at Aquino's attempts to reform the army by replacing veterans with her own choices. They have voiced their displeasure at her offer of amnesty to the Communist guerrillas of the New People's Army even as she pledges to punish human-rights abuses within her own forces...
Like many African leaders, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda has repeatedly called for economic sanctions against South Africa. He has even threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth if Britain fails to punish Pretoria. Yet Kaunda's country can ill afford sanctions. Landlocked Zambia, already suffering through its worst recession since independence in 1964, buys much of its industrial and agricultural equipment from Pretoria and has almost two- thirds of its non-oil imports shipped through South Africa. If the West were to impose sanctions on South Africa, economic necessity, compounded by a sense of vengeance, would probably move Pretoria to stop...
...only do we get no credit for it, not only do you Americans have no perspective of history as far as this is concerned, not only have you forgotten your own trauma, hesitance and difficulties in persuading your people to accept a new order of civil rights, you punish us for doing what you did but in less time than you took...
...vote was all the more remarkable for the lack of strong overt opposition to the missile deal by Washington's powerful pro-Israeli lobby. Even so, many lawmakers were fearful of supporting a measure that might offend Jewish voters in an election year and wanted to punish the Saudis for what legislators view as unfriendly acts, including muted criticism of the U.S. for its bombing raid on Libya. Said California Democrat Alan Cranston, who led the campaign in the Senate against the missile sale: "We should send the Saudis a signal that our friendship entails certain minimal obligations...
...week after voting to punish seven freshmen with a year's suspension for a widely publicized computer prank, the Administrative Board yesterday overturned its decision, putting the students instead on disciplinary probation...