Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quietly providing the same service to some other former Soviet republics that have asked for it: Georgia is not the only one being torn apart by a brutal combination of ethnic separatism, factional fighting and tensions between locals and Russians. The U.S. has a strong interest in tamping down the conflicts. "If they are left unsettled," says a senior U.S. official, "they will threaten reform in the new republics, and Russia itself...
...Herbert, 72, the battle marks a brutal climax to a career that has left behind a trail of business enemies. He fought with his brother-in-law, who charged in a lawsuit that Haft had cheated him out of investments in the family's drugstore chain. When Haft's brother Leonard sided with the brother- in-law, Herbert broke off relations with Leonard for 15 years. Herbert made frequent use of his toughness in the 1980s, when he and Robert mounted campaigns to take over such retailing giants as Dayton Hudson and Safeway Foods. While the Hafts never purchased those...
Hard Target would never have been a masterpiece; it lacks Woo's usual subtlety in dramatizing the brutal brotherhood of cops and creeps. It has a promising premise, a Most Dangerous Game gloss about a gang that arranges manhunts for macho millionaires, but nobody has much of a character. The loner hero (Van Damme), the woman in peril (Yancy Butler), the CEO-type villain (Lance Henriksen) and his soulless henchman (Arnold Vosloo) -- the roles are little more than job descriptions. Martial artist Van Damme gets to punch out a rattlesnake and follow this moral code: I shoot you three times...
...were putting heavy pressure on the Muslims to come to an agreement in Geneva, and using the threat of withholding air strikes around Sarajevo as part of that pressure. It's wrong to pressure a legitimately elected government to agree to a dismemberment that has been forced by a brutal campaign of aggression that we could have stopped and can still stop...
...Bulgaria and Macedonia. He liked Bill Clinton's campaign promises to do more for Bosnia, and thought something would come of Christopher's maiden speech decrying the dangers of Serb aggression. But he and other working-level officers who had to write the daily press guidance reconciling Bosnia's brutal carnage with a stand-back American policy grew increasingly dismayed as Clinton backed away from using force...