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...Saudi security forces did not hesitate before attempting to quell the disturbances. More than 400 people, most of them Iranians, died during the violent clashes, leading to a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries the following year. Last week the Saudis demonstrated their resolve to punish disrupters of the hajj. In the largest public execution in recent years, swordsmen in Mecca publicly beheaded 16 Kuwaiti citizens for detonating bombs in Mecca last July...
Blandon denied that her candidacy was a ploy to embarrass and punish her husband. "I know he has a reputation for being woman crazy, but this is Latin America," she said. "Such things are not as shocking here." Although Blandon stood to take only about 8% of the vote, there are signs that Cabrera may tap the First Lady to be his running mate...
...party around the woolly notions of sexual, environmental and economic freedom. Hearing that, NARAL executive director Kate Michelman interrupted her vacation in New Hampshire to criticize the third-party idea as "counterproductive." A pro-choice strategist dismissed Yard's notion as the "politics of 'screw you.' " Schneider agrees: "You punish your friends without blocking your enemies...
...rules being considered on college campuses to punish students for making racist and other defamatory remarks go beyond social and commercial pressure to actual legal muzzling. The right-wing Dartmouth Review and its imitators have understandably infuriated liberals, who are beginning to take action against them and the racist expressions they have encouraged. The American Civil Liberties Union considered this movement important enough to make it the principal topic at its biennial meeting last month in Madison, Wis. Ironically, the regents of the University of Wisconsin had passed their own rules against defamation just before the ACLU members convened...
...mujahedin, the contras and the Cambodian guerrillas are all foot soldiers of an American policy whose architect has left office -- the Reagan Doctrine. To punish Leonid Brezhnev for fomenting trouble in the Third World back in the 1970s, Ronald Reagan launched a global counteroffensive in the 1980s. By helping to arm virtually any group aiming to topple one of the Kremlin's clients, Reagan gave new force to the old U.S. strategy of "containing" Soviet expansionism...