51.   A growing number of countries are questioning the efficacy of a policy which punishes ordinary people who have little say in government policy.

52.   A Texas hate-crimes law punishes people convicted of committing a crime with bias or prejudice as a motive.

53.   Adams said the junta will also begin enforcing military decrees punishing people for hoarding or diverting petroleum products.

54.   After Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz met with Pope John Paul II, the Vatican issued a statement saying sanctions must not be used to punish a people.

55.   Amnesty International told Li it was concerned that state security and state secrets laws were used to punish people who had done nothing more than exercise fundamental freedoms.

56.   But people are rarely punished for flouting these codes.

57.   But only Sudan and Burkina Faso have passed laws condemning and punishing people who carry out the mutilation, her report noted.

58.   Caning is used to punish people convicted of bigger crimes such as sexual harassment, robbery or vandalism.

59.   Clinton, speaking across town at a monthly meeting of law officers, admitted the government made mistakes at Waco but said people were punished for them.

60.   Cook said he and Powell had agreed on a campaign to explain the sanctions as not punishing Iraqi people.