Word: brutalize
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...real problem with such a brutal interpretation of Judaism is that it ignores the religion's own historical devotion to justice and righteousness. Torah study by day and territorial conquest by night is a scenario that no self-respecting Jew would want to see acted...
...after Jose Napoleon Duarte became President of El Salvador in 1984 Washington shared his belief that he could make a difference. Six years later, however, El Salvador remains as desperate as ever. The bitter civil war lurches on, with the country's 5 million people still hostage to the brutal campaigns of the far-right death squads and the left-wing guerrillas. Duarte's economic and social reforms are mostly in ruins, and his pledges to punish human-rights abuses and corruption remain unfulfilled. Last week, at the age of 64, Duarte died in his home in San Salvador...
...reaction to the last-minute payouts was swift and brutal, especially among Drexel creditors. One large unsecured creditor, First City Bancorp. of Texas, quickly filed a motion in federal bankruptcy court in New York City asking for an investigation. The New York Times lambasted the bonuses as a case of greed worthy of the Guinness Book of World Records and called on Drexel executives to return the dough. In Washington committees in both the House and the Senate are planning hearings this week that will explore the issue. "It may be that the payments themselves rendered Drexel insolvent," says attorney...
...sudden silence in the United States regarding the brutal force used by Soviet troops as they entered Baku? What would have been the American reaction had the Soviet Union sent troops in to a non-Muslim republic? If the brutality in Tiananmen Square was a "massacre," what should we call the far greater number of reported casualties in Azerbaijan? Anis Y. Sivani...
...much more ethnic violence can the Soviet Union endure? A month after anti-Armenian pogroms in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku and a brutal clampdown by the Soviet army, Kremlin control seemed to hang by a thread last week in yet another Soviet republic. This time rioting and looting, followed by direct intervention by the Soviet army, took place in Dushanbe, capital of Tadzhikistan, a little-known republic (pop. 5.1 million) tucked into a mountainous fold of Central Asia between Afghanistan and China...