Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loved to vilify. September saw the first high-level meeting between North and South Korea; a second round of talks was conducted last month. And just days before the Moscow-Seoul accord, Pyongyang asserted its eagerness to normalize diplomatic relations with Japan, its bitterest enemy of all since the brutal Japanese occupation of the peninsula from...
Just as the crackdown was reaching its peak last week, Amnesty International made public another indictment of the army's brutal rule. In a 72-page special report, the London-based human-rights organization accused Burma's junta of "silencing the democratic movement" with systematic terror and torture...
...Darn," said President Bush last week to express his indignation about Saddam Hussein's mistreatment of his U.S. hostages. "The American flag is flying over the Kuwait embassy, and our people inside are being starved by a brutal dictator. Do you think I'm concerned about it? You're darn right I am. And what am I going to do about it? Let's just wait and see. Because I have had it with that kind of treatment of Americans...
...were carrying on the work of their deceased husbands. Aquino is the widow of Benigno Aquino Jr., Ferdinand Marcos' most bitter rival, who was assassinated in August 1983; Chamorro is the widow of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, the newspaper publisher whose murder in 1978 led to the downfall of the brutal Anastasio Somoza regime. During her 1988 election campaign, Bhutto never ceased alluding to the legacy of her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was executed in 1979 by the military government she was then fighting to succeed. She titled her autobiography Daughter of Destiny. Ousted in a constitutional coup in August...
Leverett Towers. Survived brutal cold and intense heat in defense of American patriotic ideals. Sacrificed health, sanity, thesis for country. September 1990-June 1991. 24 hours/day...