Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost all Americans were diverted by the Cold War. They were deceived by their country's new brand of imperialism; on the long and brutal Indochina War removed the blinders from enough of them to create a significant anti-imperialist movement in this country...
...cultural exchange and its perversion, the abandonment of national culture spurred by Western-style urbanization and elitist education. Ho Chi Minh, for example, was educated in France, but his education broadened his understanding of his own culture. In essays such as "The Glories of French Civilization," Ho recognized the brutal effect French dominance had on his own people...
More directly, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev had sent Nixon a note that was described as "brutal" by Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington and by the President as a message that "left very little to the imagination as to what he intended." The note was kept secret, but TIME has learned that, instead of beginning in the usual diplomatic salutation "Dear Mr. President," it started out with a harsher "Mr. Nixon." It also threatened the "destruction of the state of Israel" by Soviet forces if Israel did not stop violating the cease-fire (see THE WORLD). One member...
...bank robbery that opens the film is staged and executed with vigorous economy; no flash, just straight, brutal action. There is also a spectacular and funny showdown at the end between a hired killer (Joe Don Baker) driving a car and Charley behind the controls of a crop duster. As the car and the plane bump, sideswipe and crash into one another, the scene becomes almost a parody of the recent excesses of the chase that were encouraged by The French Connection...
...Indian special prosecutor said at the outset he would not ask for the death penalty. "We believe these men are guilty of willful and brutal genocide," he told the court. "The blood of one and one-half miilion Vietnamese stains their hands. But to execute them would only be a pale imitation of their own crimes. We only want them locked up to protect the rest of the world...