Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, Saddam repeatedly turned his guns on the Kurds. In 1975 he began forcing them out of their border villages. In 1988, to punish them for providing aid and comfort to Iran during the eight-year war, he stepped up the campaign. All told, he had his army obliterate 4,200 Kurdish villages. At least 180,000 people disappeared, purportedly into camps in the south. Most never returned, and some Western experts believe they were killed. When Kurds -- encouraged then abandoned by Washington -- rebelled after the Iraqi defeat in Kuwait last year, Saddam battered them again, sending 1.2 million fleeing...
...JOKED about being a dictator in his class who could establish arbitrary rules with impunity. He said he would punish students who did go to reporters with information about the class. Epps seemed to back him up with some arcane professor's privilege rule about not allowing the press into class...
...fair, moreover, to punish soldiers even the trial judge acknowledged were "at the end of a long chain of responsibility," while there is scant sign their superiors will be called to account? Only two senior East German officials have gone on trial, both for fraud, and none has gone to jail. The country's former leader, Erich Honecker, fled to Moscow to evade trial, and is living there under diplomatic protection at the Chilean embassy -- while suing the new government to restore his retirement pay. A letter from a West German retiree to one of Heinrich's co-defendants, border...
Sheik Jaber is not only determined to punish his enemies; he is also reluctant to trust his friends. Egypt and Syria offered to lend ground troops as a deterrent against the threat of future Iraqi aggression in exchange for billions of dollars in economic aid. But Kuwait wants no Arab soldiers stationed on its soil. Instead, the Kuwaitis are almost totally reliant on the ! U.S. for protection. They had hoped American troops would stay, but have contented themselves with a 10-year security agreement allowing the U.S. to maintain weapons and conduct military exercises in Kuwait...
...This is not the Salvation Army," snaps crusty B.U. president John Silber, arguing that the need is for results. At a time when schools are being challenged to improve education or make room for private-sector solutions, the need to reward excellence and punish mediocrity is likely to carry the day, in the classroom as much as outside...