Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall of great personages from high places," the critic George Steiner has written, "gave to medieval politics their festive and brutal character. [Such cases] made explicit the universal drama of the fall of man." Watergate had both its grubbiness and its universality. It was a quagmire and a catharsis. It was a mystery story with splendidly bizarre obscurities of plot. It was a national psychodrama, a spectacle of immense power that the Senate committee hearings dramatized as a daytime soap. (Viewers actually called in to the television networks to suggest changes of script or pace, as though they were indeed...
...operator and Volga boatman before he joined the Young Communist League. He served as political commissar on the Finnish front during World War II and eventually joined the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, rising rapidly to the rank of ambassador. While Ambassador to Budapest in 1956, he helped supervise the brutal Soviet repression of the Hungarian uprising. Though not previously a professional secret policeman, Andropov was named top cop of the Soviet Union in 1967. He quickly became known for the efficiency with which he repressed all forms of political, religious and national dissent in the Soviet Union during the 1970s...
...secret police in the Ukraine in 1939, and served in military counterintelligence during the war. Right after the war he was transferred to occupied Austria and Germany. Following his appointment as head of the Ukrainian KGB in 1970, his branch of the secret police gained a reputation for particularly brutal repression of dissidents and religious groups. Fedorchuk is now expected to be elevated to the Central Committee and possibly even to the Politburo...
...introducing the no-confidence motion, Opposition Leader Peres was also trying to capitalize on growing discontent with Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's brutal repression of Palestinians on the occupied West Bank. As he told a Labor Party meeting in Tel Aviv last week: "When I was Minister of Defense [1974-77], I made sure that Israeli soldiers in the West Bank kept the safety catches of their weapons on." To woo Peretz and Linn, Peres offered them safe Labor seats in the next election. He also hoped to benefit from the fact that the three-member ultranationalist Tehiya Party...
Casting a further pall over the British was the news that two more of its Sea Harriers were missing and presumed lost in the Falklands, the apparent victims of brutal South Atlantic weather conditions. The size of the carrier-based Harrier force was thus reduced from the initial 20 to at most 17. In a move to strengthen the task force, a group of 18 to 20 Harriers that were supposed to reach the Falklands by ship were instead ordered to fly to the combat zone from Ascension Island; they will be refueled in air, and most of them should...