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Unfortunately, the list of countries continues to stretch across the globe. There have been several well-documented cases of torture and even death during interrogation in South Korea. According to Amnesty International, there have been numerous charges of brutal, disfiguring tortures in Iraq, especially in Baghdad's Kasr-al-Nihaya Prison. In many black African countries, few torture victims survive to tell their stories. In such one-man dictatorships as Francisco Macias Nguema's Equatorial Guinea, Idi Amin's Uganda, Jean Bedel Bokassa's Central African Republic and Ahmed Sekou Toure's Republic of Guinea...
Marine boot camp has been upon occasion called brutal. Rigorous it is from design, but true brutality would be to send Marines into combat without the benefit...
...rejoice in the rescue. But let's not allow our momentary elation to obscure historical and political realities. As long as the world continues to dish out injustice to the Palestinian, ignoring his national rights, it must expect his growing desperation and his increasingly brutal response to his own oppression...
...movements, the sweet almost boyish manner, contrasting so curiously with the violent deeds he performs, have a remarkable way of gaining sympathetic interest not so much through command as through insinuation. In a western, where spacious landscapes and historical distance seem to soften the impact of his brutal methods of problem solving, Eastwood is not simply a symbol of the modern taste for random and gratuitous bloodletting in films. Rather, he reminds us of a traditional American style of screen heroism-a moral man slow to rile but wonderfully skilled when he must finally enforce his conception of right...
...meanwhile, the Arab League admitted failure so far in imposing peace in Lebanon. Despite a force of 2,300 Arab troops there as peacemakers, the league has been unable to mediate a cease-fire between the Christians and Moslems that have savaged Lebanon in the course of its increasingly brutal 15-month civil...