Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camp during his six- day German tour. "Visiting the gravesites of one's former enemies is an act of grace," said Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. "Doing so while bypassing the gravesites of the victims of that enemy--especially so brutal an enemy--is insensitive." Charitably deflecting the blame from the President, Perlmutter said that Reagan "has been the victim of awful advice...
Viet Nam, small and remote and poor, translated into an enormous presence in the American imagination. A backward agricultural country became the theater of one of the great psychodramas in American history. America absorbed Viet Nam into itself. The war brought into brutal view the discrepancies of social class that Americans have always preferred to maintain as a kind of dirty half-secret. Viet Nam was, for America, essentially a class war. The children of the poor and the lower middle class tended to do the fighting. The children of the privileged tended to get draft deferments...
...Foundation, calls "incivilities." These range from blasting radios and graffiti-marred walls to harassment by panhandlers. "A lot of us feel uncomfortable and threatened in those situations, and it's not just imagination," DuBow says. The sheer population mass of the largest cities, coupled with sensational news coverage of brutal crimes, contributes to the climate of fear. People in Portland feel safer than do inhabitants of Chicago, even though crime rates are higher in the . smaller city. Most Americans do not become crime victims, but most know someone who has. Many become quite rational prisoners of their fears, living behind...
...contrast to its brutal relocation of 10,000 Miskito Indians from the Atlantic coast in 1981 and 1982, the government is giving the new evacuees a few days' notice, then sending in troops to help them pack up and move. Some owners of coffee plantations have even been paid market rates for the farms they were forced to leave. The government is also providing food, temporary shelter, medical centers and individual farm plots to the 7,000 evacuated families that will be placed in 47 resettlement camps. While many of the refugees are suspected of having collaborated with the contras...
...journey to the U.S., which included his first state visit to Washington since he took office in December 1983. For the White House, welcoming the Argentine President was a chance to salute the hemisphere's democratic transformation, of which Alfonsin, whose election ended nearly eight years of often brutal military dictatorship, is an apt illustration. It was also an opportunity to salve wounds left by U.S. support for Argentina's enemy, Britain, during the 1982 war over the Falkland Islands, which the Argentines call Las Malvinas...