Word: brutalize
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...sounds all too familiar. After almost ten years of somnolent underground existence, Western Europe's urban guerrilla movements are once more wielding terrorism as a weapon for political disruption. The downfall of capitalism remains a long- term goal, but the immediate targets and the strategy have changed: in a brutal perversion of Western Europe's peace movement, the latest guerrilla campaign of bombings and assassinations is aimed chiefly at Western European defense installations and the 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Equally ominous is evidence that terrorist bands in West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and Portugal are beginning to coordinate...
Jeane Kirkpatrick is all of those things that at once baffle and fascinate Ronald Reagan--a woman, an academic and a Democrat. What did not perplex him was her clear-voiced condemnation of Communist societies around the world, particularly in Central America, and the need to counter their brutal purposes. He hired...
...think the regime in Guatemala is the most brutal in Central America...
...think so--I think so because the Guatemalan army is the most highly trained counter-insurgency force in the region. So over the years they've adapted these methods to try to put down the opposition. I personally think that it's the most brutal military dictatorship in the region...
...course, in one sense we should have been shocked by the brutal, senseless killing of this Harvard graduate, who was stabbed seven times outside her Upper West Side apartment. But not-withstanding the obvious news angle to this story ("Pretty Aspiring Actress Slain"), its coverage revealed something about our society. Of the hundreds of murders that happen yearly in New York City, this was one of the few that merited front-page placement in The New York Times, and then the continuous attention of the nation's major news media during the following week...