Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mujahedin hope the clergy's brutal crackdown will create sympathy for their cause, just as it occurred in the final years of the Shah's reign. In that sense, the mullahs seem to be playing into their hands. Firing squads-killed more than 50 "counterrevolutionaries" last week; raising to at least 153 the number of people executed since Banisadr was deposed as President on June 22. Jails are so packed that new suspects are no longer detained, just beaten and dumped in alleys. Laments a prominent Tehran lawyer: "Iran has become a horror movie...
...University of California Davis Medical Center (U.M.C.) was increasingly cited for excellent patient care and impressive research, particularly in heart disease. But its reputation has now suffered a brutal blow. At the palm-lined campus in Sacramento, all kidney transplants and heart surgery have been suspended because of charges of excessive complications and high mortality rates...
Once a cottage industry serving the fringes of society, illicit drugs have become a brutal big business where customers are increasingly upscale, if no less immune to the dangers of abuse. For this week's cover story on cocaine, the most deceptive and expensive of drugs, TIME sent a team of correspondents to measure its burgeoning popularity across the country. Jonathan Beaty interviewed sources in Washington, D.C., New Mexico and Southern California, while Jeff Melvoin traveled in New England, Florida and Colorado, and Steven Holmes covered Northern California and the Midwest. Correspondent Robert L. Goldstein spoke with movie celebrities...
...Torture, exile under brutal conditions, harsh emigration restrictions, disappearances and other abuses are reprehensible whether committed by friend, foe or neutral." I also said that human freedom and dignity today are most seriously violated by the Soviet Union...
Moscow not only oppresses its own citizens but also imposes its brutal system on other peoples, as in Eastern Europe. It exports that system by direct aggression, as in Afghanistan, by proxy Cuban forces, as in Africa, by subversion, as in Central America, and by terrorism, as in the Middle East...