Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TRAGEDY OF the administration's position is that a policy of non-negotiation is not the only approach to the Nicaraguan situation. The Contadora group--Mexico, Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela--has recently resurfaced after a period of inactivity to offer a plausible alternative to this brutal approach. Ministers from the four Contadora nations met last month with officials from Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Uruguay to issue a joint statement calling for a negotiated settlement to the Nicaraguan...
...alone in its gross over-emphasis of the South Africa issue at the expense of other human rights causes. This is true of many campus organizations, and many more outside Harvard. It is time for all such organizations to ask a simple question: Is South Africa the only brutal and repressive regime on earth today? Or perhaps we should address an even more general question to liberal newspapers such as yours: Are only countries allied with the United States guilty of human rights abuses? If one's sole source of information was The Crimson, the answer to that question would...
Cutting four days off reading period is simply cruel. It exacts a brutal toll from students in repeated all-nighters and massive doses of anxiety. The change was particularly painful to those who participate extensively in extracurricular activities, but all of us, both students and professors, have come to depend on the two-week reading period. It has become an institution around which people at Harvard plan their lives...
...place where people know each other by name and trust each other by nature. "You can go downtown without a dime in your pocket, do your shopping and come back to pay later," says City Councilman J. Brent Madill. "It's not faceless like L.A." In any town, the brutal killing of a teenage girl leaves a deep mark, but in Hanford the wound remains, 24 years after the crime. And now the U.S. Supreme Court has rubbed the wound open again all these years later...
...Haitians took to the streets to protest years of oppression under the Duvalier dynasty, the people of Uganda last week welcomed a new government that promised a sharp break with that country's brutal past. Thousands of Ugandans gathered outside the cream-colored Parliament building to watch as Rebel Leader Yoweri Museveni was sworn in as President just three days after his insurgents routed the forces of the military government that had seized power in a coup only six months earlier. A hush fell over the crowd as Museveni, dressed in the unadorned fatigues of an army private, took...