Word: punishable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Four FBI agents arrived in San Salvador last week to launch a more thorough investigation. After days of stonewalling, the Salvadoran government belatedly named a "high-level civilian and military commission" to "find the guilty people and punish them." But the three military members of the new four-man commission included two close friends of Defense Minister Garcia and a first cousin of Police Chief López Nuila...
...with billyclubs, choking lungs with tear gas, and knocking Timothy H.S. Venn '72 from his wheelchair onto the concrete. It took the Faculty less than one day to agree to set up a disciplinary body called the Committee of Fifteen, later the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), to punish these student demonstrators. It took less than two months for the Committee of Fifteen to penalize 135 students, forcing 16 to leave the University--many for good...
...Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, is filled with vagueness: under its provisions, for example, the CRR can judge whether a student has shown "gave disrespect for the dignity of others" and expel him on that subjective basis. The University is far more likely to use the CRR to punish political demonstrators of the future than to uphold human dignity...
Students began boycotting the committee only a few weeks after its inception, charging that its charter--the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities passed by the Faculty in 1969--was vague enough to allow the committee to punish students for their political beliefs using hearsay evidence and without right of appeal...
...Majlis resolution began with an invocation: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful," and it ended with a strong warning: if the U.S. dragged its feet in meeting the demands, the Administration would have only itself to blame if Iran should "punish the criminals," i.e., the hostages...