Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sperling and Price noted the oppression of gay people by fascist states. They were silent, however, on the oppression of gays by socialist states. The brutal treatment accorded homosexuals by the Castro regime in Cuba has become something of an international scandal. (See "Out of the Closet: Voices of Gay Liberation" for an account of the persecution of gays by the Venceremos Brigade.) In Mao's China, gays suffer similar indignities, as documented by Bau Ruo-wang's "Prisoner...
...Neves, 38, the moderates may have a figure who can contribute muscle to their cause. Some critics say that Neves is "all action and no brains." He gained acclaim during the African colonial wars as a tough and brutal soldier who liked to jump out of helicopters to fight alongside his men in the bush. His political views are something of a mystery. "Some are saying that he just likes to drink beer and chase girls," said one official last week. "But he will have to be considered on many key decisions from now on." In the near future those...
...Steelers. With Pittsburgh, he is not even the best-known defensive lineman. There are three reasons: Fellow Tackle "Mean" Joe Greene and Ends L.C. Greenwood and Dwight White, each a prototype of menace at his position and a striking figure off the field. Greenwood, 29 is a brutal tackler, although he says he hates contact and would rather not be known as a football player. Greene, 29, after a season of tossing linemen and runners around like rag dolls, goes home to cultivate his vegetable garden. As for White, 26, it is hard to know exactly what he will...
...first printing: 250,000 copies. Television and radio talk shows focus on the Warren Report-and question it. Shown three times on ABC-TV, the shocking color movie of the shooting taken by Amateur Photographer Abraham Zapruder has jarred millions of viewers into a renewed awareness of the brutal event...
...with discontent, and rivalries between volatile factions were held in check mainly by the prestige of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, whom Bengalis revered as Bangaban-dhu (friend of Bengal). But last August Mujib and his family were massacred by the "seven majors," a group of young officers who staged a brutal lightning coup against Mujib's increasingly corrupt and autocratic regime. Lacking broad popular support, the young officers ever since have faced twin dangers: revenge by Mujib's outraged supporters or a reassertion of authority by the older generals they elbowed aside during the coup...