Word: brutalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evil of the Socialist Party. They conciliated with us and the Communists. It does not work." As a member between 1969 and 1973 of the rubber-stamp parliament of the post-Salazar dictatorship led by Marcello Caetano, Sá Carneiro pressed for political liberalization, including curbs on the brutal secret police. After the revolution, he was made a Minister Without Portfolio, but he soon quit to form his own party, which opposed nationalization of banks and major industries. Last year he quit the Center Social Democrats when half its Assembly members voted to support the Socialists. Sorely in need...
...disappointment of the evening was the loss of another veteran. Mark Cocalis. The regular at 167-lbs. Cocalis had gamely moved down to 158 to fill the gap left after the loss of Mason. He suffered his own injury when B.U.'s Kevin Eagleton resorted to a brutal, twisting hammerlock. Eagleton was disqualified, but the real loss was Harvard's. Cocalis will spend the next few weeks recuperating from a dislocated shoulder...
...indeed a strange episode when the Shah of Iran, former head of one of the world's most brutal and repressive states, managed to land in the U.S. as a "private citizen." For several days leading newspapers published first page stories detailing the treatment of the Shah's cancer, creating a mood conducive to accepting him on humanitarian grounds. Only a few months earlier the press and the U.S. Senate were raising hell about the execution of the Shah's military chiefs and ex-cronies in Iran. They complained bitterly about the violation of due process of law. But they...
...sponsored coup meant for the Iranian nation 25 years of unparalleled brutality and suffering. Regrettably the complicity of the American government was a major factor in the maintenance of the Shah's regime. American advisors supported Savak, the dreaded secret police responsible for the torture and brutal deaths of untold numbers of Iranian citizens. The army was transformed into a brutal instrument of internal repression and a guardian of foreign interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf. What was called "economic development" in Iran during those 25 years was in reality the development of consumerism, quick profits for American...
Brainwashed refugees from a brutal regime...