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...Brutal Execution...
Washington publicly deplored the "extremely heavy, brutal and prolonged" Soviet bombing of rebel regions, and repeated the U.S. desire "to see Afghanistan's agony brought to an end through Soviet troop withdrawal as part of a negotiated settlement." Western military analysts in Pakistan said that the Soviets may be trying to soften up their withdrawal routes for the time when a pullout is arranged. But Moscow was hardly taking any chances. In Ghazni, south of Kabul, some 10,000 Soviet troops, along with ground and air support, were reportedly massed in preparation for a maneuver to seal...
...worst outbreak of violence Chile had seen since the brutal overthrow of Marxist President Salvador Allende by the military regime of Augusto Pinochet 9½ years ago. It began last Wednesday as a peaceful Day of Protest over the country's desperate economic straits and quickly flared into widespread rioting. Three hundred police and militia fought about 1,500 protesters for control of downtown Santiago. By Thursday authorities had finally restored order, but at a tragic price: two civilians had been killed, 150 protesters were injured and 600 arrested...
...remark echoed the confusion of many Guatemalans. Since he took over-at God's direction, as he put it-Ríos Montt has made far-reaching changes in the brutal and corrupt government that he inherited from his predecessor, General Fernando Romeo Lucas García. The country is now flooded with blue-and-white posters bearing a favorite Ríos Montt slogan, I DO NOT ROB, I DO NOT LIE, I DO NOT ABUSE. Under the President's moralizing eye, corruption has all but dried up. Government-sanctioned death squads that used to roam...
...hours. Only one person died: a printshop worker whose body was found outside a restaurant in downtown Nowa Huta, a mile from the site of the nearest demonstrations. A second round of protests, two days later, was broken up by police and militiamen with equal ease. In a particularly brutal incident, "hooligans" believed to have been recruited by the secret police invaded St. Martin's Church in Warsaw and beat up a number of volunteer workers who were serving on a committee to help the city's unemployed...