Word: reprimanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is in protest against our Government's permitting the Soviets to occupy a residence in Glen Cove tax free and turning it against our national interests," declared Mayor Alan Parente. The Soviets immediately protested to American officials, and the State Department delivered a stern reprimand: "This is an action that interferes in the conduct of foreign affairs, a function within the exclusive competence of the Federal Government...
...White House lawn while tear gas used to disperse protesters near by drifted over them. As the diary reported, Carter then took the Shah into his private study and chided him about the need for more civil rights at home. "He was embarrassed," read the presidential notes about the reprimand...
...pleased the Faculty Council refused the Gay Students Association's ill-considered request that it investigate and reprimand Mr. Edward Pattullo for his published views on homosexuality. It was a disservice to the cause of free speech at this great institution for the GSA to claim that Mr. Pattullo's official role as directory of the Center for Behavioral Sciences constituted a constraint, de jure, on his freedom of speech. The GSA has only one legitimate recourse against Mr. Pattullo's views on homosexuality--to debate them, but not to prevent them. I do not myself share Mr. Pattullo...
...open war" in the South Atlantic, and said it was "imperative" that the U.N. become involved in settling the dispute. Irish Defense Minister Patrick Power went a dubious step further and declared that "obviously, the British are very much the aggressors now." For that, Power received a public reprimand from Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey, but the change in feelings was clear. Explained one Irish diplomat: "The level of casualties is getting so high that somebody had to take the initiative." Ireland called for an immediate meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss an end to hostilities...
...racist theories because he is a physicist and was perceived as politicking outside his field of expertise, but our situation compares to the chairman of the Astronomy Department announcing the world is flat. In a free academic community, Mr. Pattullo's right to his opinion, without fear of reprimand or censorship, is sacred. But, in the University, of which all others in English America are limitations, I would hope for some prompt, emphatic, and responsible disavowals and rejoinders from someone besides the Gay Students Association and peckerwoods like me. I would contend that our society's survival and other interests...