Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Guadalajara gynecologist wanted in connection with the 1985 torture and slaying of DEA special agent Enrique Camarena. DEA agents call Alvarez Machain "Dr. Mengele," after the notorious Nazi physician. Informants say the doctor injected Camarena with the stimulant lidocaine to prevent his heart from failing during a brutal interrogation...
Atwater's illness comes at a critical time for his party. In elections this fall, the Republicans face 36 gubernatorial races and 34 Senate contests. Atwater had vowed he would be "brutal" about targeting congressional districts to reduce the Democrats' 82-seat House majority, but even he admits he has since lost his taste for hand-to-hand political combat...
Twenty feet. I kept walking, instinctively flexing inside my winter jacket. I tried to act as though images of tomorrow's Herald headlines--"Black Toughs Mug Harvard Student in Brutal Yard Assault"--were not racing through my mind...
When Indian peacekeeping forces arrived in Sri Lanka nearly three years ago to try to end a brutal civil war, exultant crowds greeted them with flowers and handshakes. But when the last batch of 2,000 soldiers trooped onto a waiting ship at the eastern port of Trincomalee last week, completing a six- month withdrawal of 70,000 men, not a single civilian showed up to bid them goodbye. If the locals had anything to say to the "peace-keepers," whose presence brought not peace but one of the bloodiest chapters in Sri Lanka's already violent history...
...fighting was a new blow to Romania's provisional government and a brutal reminder of how easily ethnic tensions can explode in Eastern Europe. Freed from the iron rule of the Ceausescu regime, Romania's 2 million ethnic Hungarians (in a total population of 23 million) have begun to campaign for greater autonomy in Transylvania, where most of them live. Their demands have outraged Romanian nationalists. Several clashes, including the savage beating of four local leaders of the Hungarian Democratic Union, led up to the latest hostilities...