Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should be punished--or even refused an honor--for the sins of his father. So let us catalogue the sins of the son and compare them with his virtues. Richard von Weizsacker was certainly no conscientious objector to Nazi aggression. He was a soldier who participated in the brutal invasion of Poland which commenced both World War II and Hitler's genocidal program. After the war, he helped his father lie to the Neurenberg tribunal by denying that he knew what was going on at Auschwitz. He helped his father construct a perjurious and unsuccessful defense which included the outrageous...
After watching Major General Richard Secord's testimony in the Iran-contra hearings ((NATION, May 18)), I have come to admire this man. We live in a complicated world, and our Government must have people like Secord who are qualified both technically and temperamentally to handle the brutal realities...
Last week nobody put the brutal A question directly to any of the remaining candidates, but TV talk-show hosts and newspaper reporters came close enough by demanding to know whether the inquiry was a legitimate campaign issue. Many of the candidates danced around this hand grenade, waiting for it to become yesterday's news. "The debate," said Richard Gephardt's campaign manager William Carrick, "is going through an awkward phase, a cartoon phase." But even if the sex angle goes stale, candidates will have to spend considerable time on broader ethical issues...
...snow you did something for The Movement? Blockade a speaker and Harvard will provide you with free documentary proof, suitable for framing. It's hard to say which is sillier, the belief that this constitutes effective punishment, or the fear of the Ad Board minority that it was too brutal. It would seem from this farcical episode that Harvard's authorities are divided between those who think it is wrong to defend free speech effectively and those who think it is wrong to defend free speech...
...Soviet front in 1941 and spent most of the remaining war years finishing his studies. He later admitted he was a first lieutenant on the staff of German Group E in the Balkans from 1942 to 1945. But he repeatedly denied he was aware of atrocities committed during the brutal German roundup of partisans in the Kozara region of Yugoslavia in the summer of 1942. More than 60,000 people were sent to concentration camps during the campaign, and thousands died in the process. Investigators also believe that Waldheim participated in the deportation of Greek Jews to Nazi death camps...