Word: brutalities
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...Russian party "is evolving toward national socialism." Otto Latsis, a Moscow political commentator, says Zyuganov heads "the worst part of the old party apparat, the most reactionary fringe." In Washington, State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, a Russian expert, says Zyuganov's Communists are "the inheritors of the most brutal system this century has known, except for the Nazis. We have nothing in common with these guys...
More public education is needed about the drug's ruinous effects, which include hallucinations, addiction, depression, paranoia and violent rages. Police report that many of the most brutal crimes are now committed by people using meth. "Maybe the legacy of the three James children can wake up the country to the danger of methamphetamine," says Synicky. "I sure hope...
...darkness. All we really know about her is that her moral courage is matched by her moral acuity. She opens herself up not just to the condemned man but also to the families of his victims, thereby squaring the movie's moral drama. Whatever she may think about the brutal finality of capital punishment, she cannot deny the anguish of these victims, the brutal finalities that a terrible crime has imposed on them...
HELPING TO ENFORCE AN AMERICAN-inspired peace agreement that could effectively end one of the century's most brutal conflicts is worth taking risks for. Proponents of the mission should be forthcoming concerning the expected problems. Congress must then make an honest assessment to ensure that the mission is workable, manageable and can be safely terminated before giving its consent for deployment. That is all we in the military can reasonably ask of our national leaders. (SFC) JAMES M. WHITE U.S.A. Fort Lee, Virginia...
...Bosnia, Europe's bloodiest conflict since the Second World War, has come to a halt. As many as 200,000 people have been slain in this brutal conflict, and two million more have lost their homes. Even more disturbing than these grim statistics is the character of the brutalies of the war. Systematic executions of civilians, mass rapes and concentration camps--atrocities that the continent had hoped it had left behind forever--belied the west's hopes for a brighter future after the Cold War. This optimism may now have a new lease in the wake of the Bosnian peace...