Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...awaiting trial. The ruckus made lawmakers look skeptically at the anachronistic law. "You could go so far as to say adultery is wrong," said Republican Representative Michael Jones, author of the decriminalization bill. "But it's not the sort of wrong that we as a society want to punish by criminal imposition." Though adultery would remain as a ground for divorce, New Hampshire religious groups oppose the bill because they think the law underscores the importance of marital fidelity. At least 15 states seem to agree: they still brand adultery a crime...
...gathering sentiment to reverse aid derives less from a desire to punish the contras than from a desire to punish the Administration. Of course, the Administration deserves to be punished. For the negligence of those who were ignorant or willed themselves into ignorance over the Iran arms affair. And for the lawlessness of those who actually carried out an operation designed to contravene congressional will...
...punish? Wounding a President by reversing his most cherished foreign policy goal is an understandable political instinct. But if it wounds the country, it is a bad one. Congress had come to the view that contra aid was in the national interest. It remains so. Abandoning that interest to get to a President is a high price to pay for sweet revenge...
...grew last week, Secretary of State George Shultz gave vent to some undiplomatic anger. Speaking to an American Legion delegation, he declared, "We want to raise the cost to those animals that hold the hostages." Yet Shultz, a strong advocate of last April's U.S. bombing of Libya to punish Leader Muammar Gaddafi's support for terrorism, shied away from any hint that Washington would launch military action to free kidnaped Americans in Lebanon or take reprisals against their captors. Said Shultz: "We should not go running around using our capacity for force right and left...
...speculation that the four hostages it holds will be part of any prisoner swap. The issue of their fate will remain "suspended," the group said, because of the U.S. Administration's "failure to respond to our demands." The statement called the four captives "criminals" and vowed to punish them, but stopped short of renewing the previous threat to kill them. In the climate of violence and uncertainty that has engulfed Lebanon, freedom for any of the hostages seemed as elusive as ever...