Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unanswered last week was the question of whether the Yemeni people would accept the peace; neither the republicans nor the royalists were represented at Jedda. Twice before, the Egyptian and the Saudi had "agreed" to stop the brutal little war, but each effort has shattered on the rocks of Nasser's ambition, Feisal's fear of Egyptian encroachment, and ancient rivalries in Yemen itself, where the tough mountain tribes consider themselves the natural rulers of the lowland tribes. Nor was it very clear just how a referendum could be held in a land whose 5,000,000 people...
...struts arrogantly before the bulls, finally coaxes his frothing and bloodied adversaries to die at his feet. Though Italian Director Francesco Rosi intends a social protest against a contest in which both man and beast are sacrificed to the mob, he instead brings forth a fi'm of brutal and paralyzing beauty, quickened with all the ancient, raging instincts that make a deadly art endure...
...Midwestern woman who wanted to know why her son was fighting in Viet Nam. Johnson's answer: "Three times in my lifetime-in two world wars and in Korea-Americans have gone to far lands to fight for freedom. We have learned at a terrible and a brutal cost that retreat does not bring safety, and weakness does not bring peace. And it is this lesson that has brought us to Viet...
Meanwhile, under pressure from a starving economy and Castro's brutal security forces, the ragtag exodus of Cubans from their homeland continues. Last week a yachtsman off Miami rescued onetime Camagüey Province Governor Luis Casas Martinez, 36, from a raft on which he had drifted alone for twelve days after escaping from a Castro prison. Casas Martinez, whose sister fled to Florida in 1964, had once been a Castro official, but he fell into disfavor. An X tattooed over his heart marked him for death for plotting against Castro. He was the latest of more than...
...reason to fear the malice of invaders. For 43 years, Korea had been under the rule of another foreign nation, Japan, and Rhee, as President of Korea's government in exile, had spent most of this time fighting a fruitless campaign for recognition. Before that, he had endured brutal torture and seven years in prison for demanding a constitutional democracy from Korea's last Emperor. In his years of exile, he had acquired an M.A. from Harvard, a Ph.D. from Princeton, an Austrian wife, and the respect of both his own people and many Americans. He had also...