Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision upholding Payne's death sentence will produce further inequities. Hypothetically, the grieving family of a murdered bank president would be persuasive witnesses for the death penalty, while no one would speak for a slain prostitute. Diann Rust-Tierney of the A.C.L.U. is worried that the Supreme Court will "sanction different punishment based on the worth of the victim and aggravate an already pronounced discrimination in the way that the death penalty is applied...
First, the United Nations does not sanction such an intervention...
Through the first four months of the Gulf crisis, congress was virtually silent. When lawmakers should have been adding their voices to the formulation of Gulf policy, they went home to campaign for reelection. They gave Bush implicit sanction to send hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops into the Persian Gulf without their formal approval...
Chaos seems likely in any case. Six of the 15 republics have refused to take part; Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have held their own referendums, denounced as illegal by Gorbachev, in which voters opted for independence by heavy margins. Other republics have, without sanction, altered the question or hooked others onto it. Citizens of the Russian republic will decide whether to have a popularly elected President; if they say yes, Boris Yeltsin could win a popular mandate that would enable him to mount a stronger challenge than ever to Gorbachev. The central government has announced that it will not take...
...strategic debate over the war's end game is beginning to resemble the one that took place earlier on the effectiveness of economic sanctions. Sanctioneers argued for more time to allow them to work, to disrupt Saddam's military strength. George Bush decided he could not wait. Now air strikes on Iraqi military positions are a kind of sanction with teeth, weakening Iraq's fighting abilities, destroying men and equipment...