Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Easter Massacre, as it was soon called, was Haddad's revenge for the deaths of three of his militiamen, who had been killed by Palestinian land mines. The brutal attack proved to be only the beginning of yet another paroxysm of violence in war-ravaged Lebanon last week. That same afternoon, Israeli fighter-bombers were hammering Palestinian positions in and around Beaufort Castle, the old Crusader ruin on the Litani River, five miles across the Lebanese border. Palestinian units responded with Katyusha rocket attacks against villages that straddle the Israeli-Lebanese border. Artillery duels broke out again between Syrian...
...most brutal rape that I've come across in more than 20 years in the department." Haves added...
...strategic views. Said Begin of Haig's anti-Soviet clarion call: "It is not an artificial alarm. The free world is shrinking and is in permanent danger." Haig also pleased his Israeli hosts by denouncing the Syrian assault on Christian Phalangists in Lebanon last week as brutal-an apparent reversal of longstanding U.S. policy to remain neutral in the festering Lebanese conflict...
When the hurricane of violence ended after five brutal hours, the toll was heavy: 165 policemen injured-26 requiring hospitalization-along with scores of civilians. Nearly 100 rioters were arrested. Estimates of property damage ran to more than $2.2 million. Beyond the burnt buildings and ravaged streets twinkling with shards of glass from shattered storefront windows, however, London now bears a more lasting scar: the psychic damage from the worst race riot in British history, an ugly explosion reminiscent of the violence that tore apart dozens of American cities in the '60s and, only eleven months ago, left whole...
...next day. During the intervening hours she was raped repeatedly, a11 night long, by more than a dozen local punks, many of them stoned on marijuana. Hawaiians, especially those concerned with an enormous tourist industry, were already deeply disturbed about the state's rising crime rate. The brutal 1979 gang rape of the innocent tourist who came to be known in the press as "Anna" made headlines at once. Hawaiians started a Help Anna fund that soon reached $5,000. More than a thousand angry islanders wrote letters of protest to newspapers and politicians. Legislators in turn cranked...