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The article was written by al-Quds al-Arabi 's Amman correspondent, Bassam Badareeen, who reported from Baghdad last week that ordinary Iraqis were becoming more openly critical of the authorities without apparently fearing retribution by the secret police.
INS supporters countered that 1) the ruling was based solely on legal concerns ; and 2) the only blackmail was Cuban-Americans' threats of political retribution against the Clinton administration.
The New York Times and Washington Post go with President Clinton's statement that Democrats should vote their consciences, with no need to fear White House retribution, when the full House of Representatives decides today whether or not to start an impeachment inquiry.
Jews, though scant among the revenge-takers, did in some cases seek retribution as well--and this chapter of the post-World War II retaliation has been especially problematic (as I explain ). In a penetrating essay in the Forward last fall, Hillel Halkin asked whether Jews who pursued extremely drastic retaliation were "courageously honest in seeking to act out what others merely dreamed of, or ...
The British retribution galvanized the Irish — and in the words of Yeats’s poem, “All changed, changed utterly.”