Word: brutalizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faking, class betrayer of workers and Celtic people, particularly during the miners' bitterly fought 12-months long battle against Thatcher's government. Kinnock endorsed racist cop terror against Black people in Britain when he laid a wreath last month at the grave of a racist cop, killed during the brutal police occupation of a London ghetto...
...Those shares took a sharp plunge last week as investors rushed to dump them, leaving the "arbs" with collective losses of $1 billion or more. The arbitrage department at Merrill Lynch, for example, is estimated by competitors to have dropped $20 million to $50 million. "It has been a brutal time for all of us," declared one trader...
...Conquest says, viewed the country's 120 million peasants as irremediably hostile to the regime. Individualistic and intractable, they would have to be torn from their bit of private land and either tamed by force or annihilated. Stalin's first target was the kulaks, caricatured as rich, greedy and brutal farmers who lived off the labor of others. Actually, they were the hardest working and the most productive of the peasants. The wealth of the average kulak family consisted of one to three cows and ten to 25 acres of land. Nevertheless, beginning in 1929, more than 13 million...
...chilling array of charges faced former Central African Republic Leader Jean- Bedel Bokassa in court last week. The self-proclaimed Emperor, who unexpectedly returned home in October after seven years of exile, stands accused of crimes ranging from cannibalism to concealing corpses to killing children during a brutal 14-year rule that ended in 1979. Bokassa was convicted of similar atrocities in 1980 and was sentenced to death in absentia. Under Central African Republic law, however, he is entitled to a second trial...
Although it had no apparent connection to the Middle East's brutal politics of terror and revenge, the murder of Besse was particularly chilling. A highly respected executive, Besse was beginning to improve loss-riddled Renault's fortunes. He had had little involvement in politics and avoided the public spotlight, preferring instead to spend his free time tending the roses at his country home southwest of Paris. The businessman was just steps from his town house in Paris' Montparnasse district last Monday night when two women emerged from the shadows. "It's good, let's go!" one of them shouted...