Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Argentina's actions indicated that Washington might revise its rose-colored view of Leopolde Galtieri's military dictatorship. Argentina is the exemplar of the Administration's "totalitarian" but not "authoritarian" nation. Though Galtieri's junta never won popular support through open elections, though the government is notorious for its brutal treatment of guiltless political prisoners, and despite the regime's denial of free speech, free press, and open assembly, Reagan has preserved close ties with Buenos Aires. In exchange for U.S. support, Argentina has declared its open hostility to the Marxist forces on the continent, posing as an integral part...
...Reagan, past presidents have invoked the name of democracy in pursuing their foreign policies across the globe. But with Wilson, Roosevelt, and Kennedy, something was different. We could honestly say that the nations the U.S. supported were more just and free than those it opposed. Now, we call the brutal dictators in Argentina our friends, and slap in the face a Nicaraguan government seeking to end U.S. hostility and ease the violent tensions in all of Central America Reagan and his policy-makers are so determined to preserve democratic ideals from the Soviet peril that they have forgotten what those...
Most significant of all, there is the issue Podhocetz shilly-shallies around--the incredible brutality of our war. He has three lines of defense: our conduct was no more brutal than in other wars, atrocities like My Lai were rare, and we did not violate the international rules of war too often. So who cares? That we were brutal in Korea is no excuse for Vietnam-cruelty is not governed by rules of precedent. And the antiwar movement paid much less attention to the My Lai's and Son My's than...
...scare tactics to label as extremists the people who have the courage to fight brutal military dictators in Central America [March 22]? Why shouldn't Nicaragua arm itself against the U.S. Government, which has invaded it twice and is eager to do it again? Why do the Government and the press assume that backing military dictators supports U.S. interests? It doesn't support mine. Hasn't American industry found it profitable to deal with Communist governments in the Soviet Union, China, Yugoslavia and the Eastern satellites of the U.S.S.R.? Why does our Government invariably oppose a people...
...Fort Bragg, N.C., back in 1970. Military police found MacDonald's pregnant wife and two daughters bludgeoned and stabbed to death. MacDonald, then a physician for the Green Berets, lay unconscious in the duplex apartment with 17 stab wounds. He claimed that four "hippie types" had committed the brutal slayings, but Army investigators believed he had expertly stabbed himself with nonfatal wounds to cover a homicidal marital quarrel. The Army charged MacDonald with the murders and then, after more investigation, dropped the case. But in 1975, after a protracted Justice Department inquiry, a federal grand jury indicted the doctor...