Word: brutalize
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...become clearer in the next few months. There will come a time when the opposition in Nicaragua will need sizable logistical support. It would be very sad if it does not receive that support. It would freeze the opposition and allow the regime to consolidate. The result would be brutal repression. Since President Reagan has said the U.S. is helping this effort, for the U.S. to allow 7,000 people to go in and then leave them out on a limb would be a disaster. It would be a repeat of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a total discredit...
...Brutal austerity measures aim at shrinking an $86 billion mountain of debt
...Every death is painful, but this one is especially brutal. It will not be forgotten." As the telegram from Lech Walesa, founder of the outlawed independent trade union Solidarity, was read, a hush fell over the mourners who had gathered in Warsaw's St. Stanislaw Kostka Roman Catholic Church last week. Then they burst into applause. The funeral was for Grzegorz Przemyk, 19, a high school senior who died of injuries received from a severe beating by Polish militiamen. His death quickly became a rallying cause for Poles who hate the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...country's angry exile community (180,000 in The Netherlands alone), former Prime Minister Henk Chin A Sen is mobilizing diplomatic support from his bases in The Netherlands and the U.S. Last week he published Horb's eyewitness account of the executions. Bouterse may nonetheless launch another brutal purge while some 1,000 exiled military men may yet galvanize a disgruntled populace into another coup. But no one can be sure that a change of power would restore democracy or prosperity to Suriname. As Chin A Sen says, "We don't want to replace Frankenstein with Dracula...
...Canada, is conducting a threeyear, $1 million survey, the first sweeping examination of medical education in a half-century. The aim, says A.A.M.C. President John Cooper, is to determine "what is the education that all physicians need," and how to make the process less "brutal...