Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most evident when they are contrasted with conservatives. Recent Republican heroes are men like Nixon and Reagan. Nixon was known for his unscrupulousness and his cruelty. The Christmas bombing of Hanoi and authorization of unconstitutional counterintelligence actions against his real and imagined enemies are typical of the warped but brutal mind of "Tricky Dick...
Conn, an impeccably tailored Clark Kent type who would have done just fine in front of the cameras, says he will offer a "blow-by-blow re-creation of the shootings to depict the horror of the crime and how unnecessary and brutal these killings were." Conn will direct the jurors' attention to the murder of Kitty in particular, who he says got "lost in the shuffle" during the first trial. "Whether or not [the brothers] felt a threat from Jose," says Conn, "there was no reason to believe there was a threat from their mother...
...ASHAMED FOR MY COUNTRY AFTER reading about the rape of the young girl in Okinawa by U.S. servicemen. Those who commit such brutal crimes should be put to death, but men in my country commit rapes in frightening numbers because the penalty is laughable. LISA TUCKER Kingsville, Texas...
...problem persists the winter will be brutal," he said...
Certainly the tiny nation of 7 million has rebounded from the dark age of the Cedras dictatorship, when the economy lay in ruins, a brutal militia known as the attaches spread terror, and no one dared leave home after dark. Today the avenues of Port-au-Prince and other cities are teeming with life and commerce at all hours. The press is free, political parties are vigorous, and human-rights abuses are at a historic...