Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...equally clear that another round of attacks may be launched. So far, no Iraqi planes have taken up the challenge. The United States launched the missile attacks after Iraqi forces went into action last weekend, supporting one Kurdish faction against another in a military campaign the U.S. condemns as brutal. While international condemnation of Iraq's actions has been strong, support for the U.S. retaliation has been mixed. Britain, Germany and Israel approve of the U.S. move, while France and sometime Iraqi ally Russia deplore the missile strikes. The most telling effect of international disapproval is the hold...
EAUFORT, S.C.: South Carolina Governor David Beasley declared a state of emergency, called out the National Guard and ordered half a million people evacuated from coastal areas as Hurricane Fran swirled toward landfall on 115 mph winds. "Fran is a large and brutal storm, and she is not to be trifled with in any shape, way, fashion or form," said Beasley. Fran, which some experts fear may pack the punch of Hurricane Hugo, is likely to come ashore Thursday afternoon north of Charleston, the same place where Hugo, with its 140 mph winds, hit land with devastating effect...
...must walk to what is inevitably known as Old Sparky). Set in the deep, sleepy and racist South of 1932, the novel asks the question, What if a hulking but gentle and close-to-mute black man with a gift for Christlike healing were sentenced to die for the brutal kidnapping and murder-rape of two little white girls--crimes he may or may not have committed? There are many familiar King elements: gore ( in this regard a botched electrocution is the novel's tour de force), ambiguous supernatural powers, cruelty and revenge. Newcomers to King may be surprised...
...that on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, an area about the size of Connecticut where 10,000 Lakota live, 85% of the population between ages 12 and 35 binge on alcohol and other drugs; child abuse is rampant; and gangs like the Crips and Bloods have been offering a brutal form of sanctuary for lost or neglected kids...
...corruption and oligarchical politics that had gripped the country throughout the 1980's. The two convicted men were boyhood friends who rose through the military and as generals staged a coup in 1979, placing Chun into the presidency. Six months later, Chun ordered a brutal crackdown of pro-democracy uprisings in the Kwang-ju province. The police action left some 200 dead, and Kwang-ju became a rallying cry for Korean dissidents. Roh succeeded Chun in 1988 and ruled until the current civilian president, Kim Young-sam, won power in 1992. It was Kim who began the reforms that...