Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specter of two-thirds of the British navy steaming toward the South Atlantic to defend a remote, treeless string of islands, smaller than Connecticut, and populated by 1300 sheep farmers? The gallant sailor-boys (including, we are told, the ever-so-dashing Prince Andrew) are off to fight a brutal military regime, most famous for its human rights violations, whose invasion of the Falkland islands last week was clearly a ploy to distract its citizens' attention away from a serious domestic economic and political crisis. The dimensions of the situation which has developed over the last week, parody a time...
...perhaps more brutal than the legal barriers against the Amerasians is the social discrimination. As John Aeby, spokesman for the Holt International Children's Services, an organization helping these children, points out, strong nationalistic feeling in the Asian countries has helped cause the ostracism of Amerasians from societies, which will not often accept anything less than total racial homogeneity. Consequently, many Amerasians are subject to intense scorn, ridicule, and harrassment and condemned to lives of poverty...
...policy, which was demanded by students in 1978 and designed to use the University's prestige to undermine South Africa's police state. Logic would suggest that the real apology is owed to the majority of South Africa's citizens for Harvard's hand in perpetuating an illegitimate and brutal government...
Anyone who lives on the West Bank cannot escape some sort of contact with the Israeli soldiers. For many of us, this is often brutal and dehumanizing. They hassle people at whim. They stop and search cars, sometimes even knocking off the hubcaps. They demand to see identity cards, and woe to that person who has forgotten to carry his with him. After being harassed once, I make certain I have my ID at hand before I even get dressed in the morning...
Even by the efficient standards of the South African military, the operation was brutal. After dawn, 43 heavily armed troops of South Africa's seasoned, mostly black 32nd Battalion were airlifted across the Namibian border into the rocky terrain of the Cambeno valley, some 15 miles away in the southwestern corner of Angola. Then, supported by helicopter gunships, they destroyed a secret, unfortified supply base manned by an estimated 250 guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). The toll: 201 guerrillas killed. Only three South African soldiers were lost...