Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's Great Hall speech, 17 passages were judged provocative and excised (see box). To be sure, the speech also demonstrated that while the President has largely reversed himself on China, his conservative rhetoric has lost none of its crackle. He called the Soviet Union "wanton" and "brutal," and ascribed America's success to liberty and godliness. Although the President and his party made light of Chinese TV's bowdlerization of the speech (said Reagan to reporters: "You fellows do it all the time"), the Americans were sore over the incident...
...America's troops are not massed on China's borders, and we occupy no lands. Nor do we commit wanton acts, such as shooting 269 innocent people out of the sky for the so-called cause of sacred airspace. America and China both condemn military expansionism-the brutal occupation of Afghanistan, the crushing of Kampuchea [Cambodia...
...frightening propensity for relapsing into violent bouts of puritanism and dogmatism. In 1979 Deng released the country from the cultural straitjacket of the Mao era, admitting Shakespeare and Updike, Mickey Mouse and Muhammad Ali, the Beatles and the Boston Symphony. In the following year, however, he endorsed a brutal backlash. By 1981 leftist ideologues were publicly censuring Playwright Bai Hua, who had dared to let one of his characters ask her father, "You love your motherland, but does she love you?" The following month, Bai was given a national award for his poetry by the Ministry of Culture. When...
...some deft dialectical sleight of hand to dismantle Maoism without entirely discrediting Mao. He can hardly afford to denounce the former leader too vehemently: 50 years ago, after all, Deng was a participant in Mao's epochal Long March, and some 25 years ago he was helping Mao administer brutal punishment to hundreds of thousands of intellectuals. But since he assumed power, Deng has published his belief that "every Chinese knows that without Chairman Mao there would be no new China." At the same time, he has not restrained the official press from indicting the shaping hand of Chinese Communism...
...troops. The borders of every country in the region are porous. Honduras, flanked by El Salvador and Nicaragua, is already jittery, as is Costa Rica, which has no army of its own. Guatemala, however, has a 22,000-man army and 20 years of experience in often brutal counterinsurgency. The crucial question is what would happen to Mexico, the U.S.'s problem-ridden, potentially volatile neighbor...