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...know why God should punish us like this," sighed the weary President of Bangladesh, Hussain Mohammed Ershad, as he looked out a helicopter window at the devastation below. Even by the standards of his perennially destitute country, the punishment this time seemed inordinately cruel. As much as three-quarters of Bangladesh -- a country the size of Wisconsin crowded with 110 million people -- lay under water after it and neighboring India, Bhutan and Nepal were pelted by what may have been the heaviest monsoon rains in 70 years. An estimated 30 million Bangladeshis were left homeless. Many hundreds perished, though...
...came an echo of the savage internal P.L.O. feuding that has almost always paralyzed Arafat when he has undertaken diplomatic initiatives. Any Palestinian serving in the proposed provisional government, warned a leaflet circulated by an anti-Arafat faction, "will be tried by a court of the people, which will punish him without mercy...
...growers; now millions of dollars worth of plums are rotting on the trees. Money is growing scarce, especially in Gaza, as the Israelis impose punitive fines and present confiscatory bills for dwindling services. Merchants in the West Bank say their income has shrunk by 60%. Savings are vanishing. To punish communities where there has been rioting, the Israeli authorities sever telephone lines, cut off electricity, curtail food shipments and restrict travel...
Velayati said the Security Council is obliged to punish Iraq after reading a U.N. experts' report which concludes that Iraq made frequent and large-scale use of outlawed chemical weapons...
...Senate Armed Services Committee last week, Carlucci said he would resume payments, which he suspended only three weeks ago, to nine Pentagon contractors that are under investigation in the Government's sweeping probe into charges of bribery and bid-rigging in the defense business. "My job is not to punish companies," he said. "My job is to protect the national security...