Word: brutality
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...setback for reform-minded parties, including the one linked to Boris Yeltsin. The Communists and their allies were on their way to controlling the body, a disturbing development because in six months Russians would vote for President. Yeltsin's standing in the polls was abysmal, a reflection of his brutal misadventure in Chechnya; his increasing authoritarianism; and his economic reform program, which has brought about corruption and widespread suffering. Considering the country's deep dislike of Yeltsin and the Communists' surge, Braynin, a close friend of some of Yeltsin's top aides, thought that something radical had to be done...
...Atlanta ready? One of the more vexing problems here is the weather, which tends toward the brutal in July and August. At the U.S. Olympic track-and-field trials in June, the mercury rose to a muggy 100[degrees] in the stands and 112[degrees] on the track itself. Even though the seats were three-fourths empty during the week, more than 100 spectators and athletes had to be treated for heat distress. For the athletes, A.C.O.G. plans to have more shade and hydration stations at Olympic Stadium than USA Track & Field did. For spectators inside the central core...
...dual-containment policy has critics--some European countries wonder why the U.S. does not engage Iran and Iraq as it does Syria, whose regime is equally brutal--but few would dispute the strategic value of protecting oil. The question, though, is whether the U.S. has become so aggressive in its buildup that it risks undermining the gulf countries even as it protects them. The U.S. tries to maintain a low profile, but as the Dhahran bombing and the one in Riyadh that preceded it both tragically indicate, the presence of U.S. soldiers incites radical Islamists. Many Arabs...
...Zairian military recently launched an operation to quell what they are calling a rebel uprising by indigenous militia. Long feared for their corrupt and brutal ways, the unpaid combat troops have scored a few successes against the rebels but in the process have spread terror throughout North Kivu. At the Lake Edward fishing village of Vitshumbi, 62 miles north of Goma, paracommandos stormed in behind a barrage of mortar fire last month, killing 15 Bangalima combatants and, according to local human-rights workers, herding 34 suspected collaborators into local churches and gunning them down. A mother of five reported being...
...that they were out there to begin with? The New York Times took the former attitude, dutifully reporting Mayor Rudy Giuliani's boats about the crack police work of the NYPD. Once crucial detail especially worked to Giuliani's advantage: John J. Royster, the man who confessed to a brutal beating in Central Park and a murder on Park Avenue, was caught because he was fingerprinted during an arrest three months ago--for turnstile-hopping. That kind of "quality-of-life" crime has been the target of the mayor's law-enforcements strategy; here, it seemed, was living proof that...