Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tactics are brutal but effective: He uses women and children as screens for his gunmen, forcing peacekeepers either to sit and be shot or to fire into the crowd. He knows that both dead foreign troops and dead Somalis damage the credibility of the U.N. operation. His presence in Mogadishu ensures continued unrest and violence; he retains significant support in Mogadishu and he knows...
...answer is in their pasts in China, flashbacks that give The Joy Luck Club its epic radiance. The domestic dilemmas in the American scenes are minute compared with the enthralling tragedies laid out amid period splendor: brutal husbands, wicked stepmothers, subjugation and betrayal, lives ruined, babies sacrificed -- and, on the young women's part, a wondrous ferocity of will. The large ensemble (mothers and daughters at two or three ages) is evidence of Hollywood's untapped wealth of Chinese-American actresses. One warning: the typhoon of emotions makes this an eight-handkerchief movie. Bring four for the mothers, four...
...being held in a detention center near the city and in four other towns to the south. Breaking with a long-standing policy of diplomatic silence, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reported severe malnutrition among camp inmates; Muslims have filled out the details with reports of brutal beatings and even torture. The perdition visible in these pictures only begins to reflect the impossibility of putting the heritage of peaceful coexistence back together again in Mostar -- a difficulty reflected sadly throughout the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
...after radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful in the Northeast, where mountain trails are brutal and steep, composed mostly of rocks the size of refrigerators. You can't navigate them with a bike or, for that matter, with a humvee (the ultimate gearmobile, short of James Bond's Aston Martin with its ejecto seat...
Food is there, but a brutal civil war is starving thousands...