Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same message to farmers in Iowa, where many of them last year planted extra acres in corn, expecting to sell it to the Soviets. He told an audience in Harlan: "They knew they were taking a risk. Risk taking is part of farming. I have the tough and brutal decision: Do I accommodate those people who have made the wrong decision? Well, no, I don't think we should...
...dozen years, the momentum of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the sheer importance of what was being negotiated helped SALT to survive the sometimes quixotic workings of American democracy and the sometimes brutal vicissitudes of Soviet behavior. President Carter's decision to request a postponement of the Senate debate on ratification of the SALT treaty could spell the end not just of SALT II but of the prospects for SALT III, the SALT process as a whole, and the array of lesser arms-control negotiations in which progress has often depended on the SALT bellwether. Among them: talks...
...SOVIET INVASION of Afghanistan ranks as one of the most cynical and brutal violations of sovereignty in recent years. To aid Afghan insurgents fighting Soviet aggression and to prevent the repetition of such aggression elsewhere, the United States must take strong measures including arming Afghan rebels and Pakistan to raise the cost of invasion for the Soviet Union to prohibitive levels...
...most brutal blow from the Soviet Union's steel fist since the Red Army's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. In a lightning series of events last week, Afghanistan's President Hafizullah Amin was overthrown, and subsequently executed, in a ruthless coup mounted by the Soviet Union and carried out with the firepower of Soviet combat troops. In Amin's place, Moscow installed Babrak Karmal, a former Deputy Prime Minister long considered to be a Soviet protégé, but not before Russian troops were forced to fight a sporadic series of gun battles...
...March, thousands of Afghans in Herat (pop. 150,000), a provincial capital 400 miles west of Kabul, rose in a revolt that lasted for several days. An estimated 20,000 civilians lost their lives; so did at least 20 Soviet advisers and their families in a series of brutal rebel attacks...