Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pilot. In Lyndon Johnson's eventful presidency, the gravest crisis of all was the first. No Vice President be fore him ever witnessed the assassination of a President; none ever had the presidency thrust upon him in such brutal circumstances. Johnson was shocked and staggered. But even as he sat in an anteroom of Parkland Memorial Hos pital in Texas, he took full command of himself and of the office for which he had been honing his talents all his life...
Through an assiduous campaign of relative liberalization, Hungarian Communist Boss Janos Kadar hoped to erase the image of a Moscow toady that attached to him after Russia's brutal repression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt. He largely succeeded. In addition to other forms of relaxation, including somewhat freer speech and more permissive economic planning, Kadar seemed inclined to ease up on the church. After 18 months of complex and arduous negotiations with the Vatican, he recently agreed to replenish Hungary's dwindling supply of Roman Catholic priests and permit freer practice of religion. But liberalization can go only...
Meanwhile the Crimson attack, which only rarely completed a pass play, hardly ever tested the Brown goalie. Unless Coach Cooney Weiland's forces can do an about-face, they're going to have plenty of trouble with the brutal holiday opposition...
...become a watershed in the history of emerging Africa. For five years, African politicians have indiscriminately whiplashed the Western world while glorifying themselves with such airy phrases as "African personality" and "African socialism." Tshombe-that rarest of Africans who seems to have no complexes about being black-recognizes the brutal side of the African personality, and the phony side of African socialism. He is willing to accept people from the outside-whether mercenaries, technicians or missionaries-to give the Congo a measure of stability. Canny and unscrupulous, candid and pragmatic, he just might do it-although the odds are overwhelmingly...
...which they are universally known-mercenaries. They were not above searching bodies for cash or blowing a few safes in the Stanleyville banks. But a great many of them are fighting for Tshombe's government out of conviction. Certainly, the "mercenaries" are no more mercenary-and far less brutal-than the African soldiers on either side of the Congolese civil...