Word: reprimand
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...teachers in Malawi may be working in classrooms in large numbers, but African officials there and elsewhere are not about to turn over the task of charting national policy to young American volunteers. Malawi, in fact, is one of the few countries where volunteer activities have drawn an offcial reprimand: President Hastings Banda complained in a speech that volunteers were trying too hard to live like the people, when as teachers their job was to take a more professional, more aloof attitude. Instead, here were Americans living in huts, dressing sloppily, sleeping with local girls, and, worst of all, getting...
...composed of three admirals and six captains, found Kuntze guilty of three acts unbecoming an officer: 1) allowing Jannie to reside "openly and notoriously" in his official quarters; 2) letting her use a U.S. Government vehicle; and 3) illegally importing 250 yards of black cloth. Kuntze was. handed a reprimand and reduced in seniority by 100 numbers-thus ending his naval career; he in turn announced his intention to retire by year...
Recognizing the Southerners' attack on Loan as largely a device to further their own political interests, Ky has flatly refused to go along with their demands that his security chief be fired-though he did agree to issue a public reprimand to Loan for last month's incident. This was not enough to placate the angry Southerners. Their prime mover last week was Economics Minister Au Truong Thanh, 41, who flew into Saigon from Washington with fury blazing behind his tinted bifocals. In a private session with Ky, he once again demanded Loan's dismissal. Otherwise, Thanh...
...problems his own; he participated in last year's famous Selma march and made frequent trips to Mississippi to carry food, books and clothing to civil rights workers. Before the picketing of Judge Cannon's home, he had become well known in Milwaukee-and earned a reprimand from his ecclesiastical superiors-for organizing a four-day boycott of public schools to protest de facto segregation...
...always suffering torments from a variety of ailments from neuralgia to colic, he begrudged every moment spent away from his work. He was a master nagger; once, when his wife moved the piano in the living room by a few inches, he wrote her a four-page letter of reprimand...