Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proverbial "big play" looms large on the Crimson defensive radar screen. Against Bucknell, five touchdown passes spelled out with brutal clarity what an opportunistic running back can do to the Harvard defense. In that regard, Murphy wants his second home game to be unlike his first...
...case, many of the evils of the planet (General Cedras and the atrocities of Haitian politics, for example, or the slaughters in Rwanda) undeniably arise from a brutal, uncivilized, masculine side of human character. It may be advisable -- and constitutionally imperative -- for American Presidents to keep American soldiers out of such satanic messes. Clinton has been neither aggressive nor effective in facing the tragedies of Bosnia and Somalia, which may be part of the reason he felt tempted by the apparently more manageable case of Haiti. But if a President asks American soldiers to go in, what is needed...
...smoothness of the operation, many found the manner and the content of the deal that had forestalled an invasion distasteful. To get out of a jam, the current President had lent his authority to a failed former President. The terms of Jimmy Carter's arrangement to remove Haiti's brutal junta were so much less than Clinton had promised only days before. The agreement did not require the dictators to leave Haiti after their retirement, and they did not even sign it. It implied they and their followers were entitled to a "general amnesty" for the acts of repression that...
...invade, he seized a startling penultimate chance to talk the junta out. He had just finished his TV address to the nation Thursday night, explaining why he was on the verge of ordering a Haiti invasion -- because there seemed to be no other way to force that nation's brutal military dictators into yielding power. Only minutes after the cameras stopped rolling in the Oval Office, the President sat down with Vice President Al Gore, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake. They shared a secret that only three or four other people...
Instead the President concentrated heavily on convicting the Haitian junta of a long list of atrocities. He spoke of "people slain and mutilated, with body parts left as warnings to terrify others. Children forced to watch as their mothers' faces are slashed with machetes." Permitting so brutal a regime to stay in power in defiance of its earlier agreements to get out would endanger continuation of a trend toward democracy throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, said Clinton, and might well unleash a new flood of refugees: "300,000 more Haitians -- 5% of their entire population -- are in hiding...