Word: brutalize
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...fourth time in six months, Israel last week was hauled before a United Nations panel to answer charges of cruelty to Arabs and Zionist expansion. The scene, as often before, was the 15-member Security Council, where Egypt accused Israel of "brutal and illegal actions" against the 650,000 Palestinians on the occupied Jordan West Bank. Zeh-di Labib Terzi, U.N. Spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization, urged the council to demand immediate Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. Terzi's request, if adopted, would certainly provoke another U.S. veto...
...clear to Humphrey that his wife, who in the past had been so reluctant, who had so much wanted him to stay out this year, was now ready for him to run. "I was really surprised," he said. "It was a dramatic change for Muriel." He reminded her how brutal the last-minute campaign would be, that by his reckoning the most he could bring to the convention would be 600 delegates, and that Carter would have many more than that. "Besides," he said to her, "Carter would be attacking us every day for being a spoiler, for dividing...
Berlinguer shows his "true," Stalinist colors at the end of the book: "You see," he says, announcing the coup to the Professor, "any truly revolutionary uprising . . . requires a brutal and painful rendering of the social fabric . . . Stalin, whom we no longer honor but have never forgotten . . . was merely a surgeon of history...
...exile from Hollywood studios, the film stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, an obese, autocratic cop who frames his victims to ensure that the guilty do not escape punishment. Quinlan represents Welles's moral vision at its most complex and contradictory: on the one hand, he is a repulsive figure--brutal, racist, eats candy bars the way most people smoke cigarettes--and employs illegal methods; but on the other, he cares deeply about people, unlike his self-righteous and priggish antagonist, the Mexican detective Vargas (Charlton Heston) and is always right in his intuitions of guilt. The other characters...
Thousands of people have been packed off to "reeducation centers," where Machel's brand of Marxism is taught with a heavy and sometimes brutal hand. Machel does not coddle even his own supporters. He has warned that many workers might have to toil for as long as three years without pay "for we are without funds to reward your labors." After independence, Frelimo soldiers were given the choice of leaving the service without pay for their years in the guerrilla movement or of staying in the service-also without pay. Says Machel: "We cannot tolerate a bourgeoisie in Mozambique...