Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their rules, hedging was unacceptable, and the two sides were expected to take the plan or leave it. When the proposal was presented to the Muslim-led Bosnian government and the Serb rebels on July 6, it came with an ultimatum: if they turned it down, they would be punished. The Bosnian government signed on without conditions. But the Serbs, who have never met a peace plan they liked, coolly called the bluff. Foreign ministers of the five would-be peacemaker states are to meet in Geneva on July 30 and try again to muster the political will to punish...
...Senate committee today, and faces a full congressional vote within the next two weeks. "There will be a certain amount of rhetoric from both sides," says Laurence I. Barrett, TIME Washington contributor. "But I don't think it will defeat the bill." The legislation would ban some assault weapons, punish three-time felons with life sentences and add many crimes to the growing list of death-penalty offenses. The price tag for carrying out the law's mandates: $32.4 billion. What's missing from the grab bag is the controversial Racial Justice Act, which would have allowed death-row inmates...
...Bosnian Muslims followed the Serbs' lead, and deep-sixed the latest proposal for peace in former Yugoslavia. Since the Bosnian Serbs are being held responsible for defeating the peace plan in the first place, it's up to the West to decide how to punish them--and all the options threaten to lead to another round of bloody fighting in the region. "The West is now backed into a corner, and it has to act," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief James Graff. In another ominous sign, U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry was forced to cancel plans to visit Sarajevo...
...student-court session in which two younger pupils were put on trial for stealing car parts from an automobile repair shop. Zhirinovsky acted as prosecutor, and even though such pilfering was common, he turned the proceedings into a show trial, delivering a shrill speech about the need to punish the boys. Enraged, his peers waited until after class and beat...
...free-speech decision that gives government workers a little more breathing room to express themselves, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an agency may not punish or fire employees without some reasonable, factual, basis for believing their remarks were either disruptive or unprotected by the First Amendment. In a separate decision, the court came down on the side of environmentalists, ruling that the federal Clean Water Act gives states the power to control the quantity, as well as the quality, of water in rivers...