Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to reports from Moscow, the Ryazan branch of the Soviet Writers Union recently yielded to party pressure to expel Solzhenitsyn from the organization. The move was taken to punish the 50-year-old author for "conduct unbecoming a Soviet writer," for "actively using the bourgeois anti-Soviet press for anti-Soviet propaganda," and for failing to combat the use of his name abroad. Since the ouster places a stigma on Solzhenitsyn, it means, in effect, that no Soviet editor would dare accept his works for publication...
...should seek the suspension or modification of congressional amendments that threaten to cut aid to nations that expropriate U.S. private investment holdings without quick compensation, that buy "sophisticated" weapons, or that seize U.S. fishing boats. Among such codicils is the well-known Hickenlooper Amendment, which could be invoked to punish Peru for its nationalization of the American-owned International Petroleum Co. The U.S. should also abandon the practice, says Rockefeller, of demanding that at least half of all goods bought with American aid funds be transported in U.S. flagships-a hidden subsidy to the high-priced U.S. shipping industry that...
...angrily dismissed the Russian charges of U.S. provocation. Israel, meanwhile, announced that it was raising the maximum age for military reserve duty from 49 to 55. It also issued its own communique announcing "concern for Lebanese territorial and political integrity." No one doubted that the Israelis were prepared to punish fedayeen attacks from Lebanon, or to react forcefully if the fedayeen caused Helou to lose control...
Lance has to punish himself, because he chose to hang on to his guilt and remain alienated...
...another informal meeting yesterday morning the Committee agreed upon the procedures to punish students involved in further incidents like this...