Word: brutalize
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...result of these brutal tactics, all potential opposition voices to President Lucas García have been silenced, and political pluralism is dead. Though García cannot legally succeed himself in next March's presidential election, there is little doubt that a like-minded rightist, such as General Aníbal Guevara Rodríguez, the Defense Minister, will move into the palace in Guatemala City...
...Mujahedin hope the clergy's brutal crackdown will create sympathy for their cause, just as it occurred in the final years of the Shah's reign. In that sense, the mullahs seem to be playing into their hands. Firing squads-killed more than 50 "counterrevolutionaries" last week; raising to at least 153 the number of people executed since Banisadr was deposed as President on June 22. Jails are so packed that new suspects are no longer detained, just beaten and dumped in alleys. Laments a prominent Tehran lawyer: "Iran has become a horror movie...
...University of California Davis Medical Center (U.M.C.) was increasingly cited for excellent patient care and impressive research, particularly in heart disease. But its reputation has now suffered a brutal blow. At the palm-lined campus in Sacramento, all kidney transplants and heart surgery have been suspended because of charges of excessive complications and high mortality rates...
...Torture, exile under brutal conditions, harsh emigration restrictions, disappearances and other abuses are reprehensible whether committed by friend, foe or neutral." I also said that human freedom and dignity today are most seriously violated by the Soviet Union...
Moscow not only oppresses its own citizens but also imposes its brutal system on other peoples, as in Eastern Europe. It exports that system by direct aggression, as in Afghanistan, by proxy Cuban forces, as in Africa, by subversion, as in Central America, and by terrorism, as in the Middle East...