Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). "I'm totally identified with the notion of constitutionality in Chile," he says. But throughout Latin America and within the community of American scholars who study international development, Harberger and his Chicago school of economics symbolize economic policies that require brutal tyranny...
...addition, countries looking for a more human approach will shun the HIID. If Harberger comes, he will give advice that will contribute to brutal political repression and to economic injustice. Harvard would make a worthier and wise decision if it chose someone who would encourage a ferment of ideas, and someone with the breadth of imagination to envision an approach that will help put an end to the suffering and starvation...
Guatemala's military government is regarded by much of Latin America as particularly brutal in its suppression of peasant dissent. Usually, its actions against insurgent campesinos take place in provincial backwaters, thus escaping widespread attention. This time, however, the regime moved against a foreign embassy in the full glare of worldwide publicity. Said one diplomat in Mexico City: "It is worse than the Iranian hostage business. This is outright murder...
...would have to have lived with the talk and the judgments for the rest of his life. Gossip and scandal create people's pasts in Farmington, and were Kennedy to run 20 years from now, he would not be able to escape the talk. The judgment of Kennedy is brutal. After 17 years in the United States Senate, he is judged by the nostalgic opinions of what his brothers were and could have been and the failure to control what Farmington believes men should be able to control--their families and their personal lives...
...leaders found that their views of the Iranian and Afghan crises coincided. Responding to a dinner toast, with Sadat nodding his approval, Begin denounced Khomeini's rule as "an outburst of dark fanaticism, of black hatred." Later he termed the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan "one of the most brutal acts of our time." "Thank God," he noted somewhat smugly at one point, "Egypt and Israel, unlike these two negative phenomena, are on the side of right, not wrong, of justice, not its opposite, of freedom, and not slavery...