Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been killed. The guerrillas escaped with at least 20 casualties. Salvadoran military officials claimed that government pilots had not intended to strike the town center and had been misdirected by insurgents using captured radios. The commander who led the counterattack apologized to the people of Tenancingo, explaining that the brutal bombing raid had been an "exception." Nevertheless, the incident was bound to set back government efforts to pacify and repopulate wartorn areas of the country. It was also sure to draw the wrath of U.S. congressional critics...
...wake of Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino's murder, pressure had mounted on Reagan to cancel his visit to Manila scheduled for November. The trip, it was argued, could be seen only as a gesture of support for the brutal Marcos regime and tacit absolution for Marcos and his cronies for their likely involvement in the Aquino slaying. When Reagan actually decided on Monday to forego his Manila jaunt, there was some short-lived rejoicing within the anti-Marcos camp both here and in the Philippines. Reagan, it seemed, had seen the light of reason on at least one issue...
...According to accounts that suddenly appeared on TV and in the world press last week, a company of 60 or 70 U.S. infantrymen had entered My Lai early one morning and destroyed its houses, its livestock and all the inhabitants that they could find in a brutal operation that took less than 20 minutes. When it was over, the Vietnamese dead totaled at least 100 men, women and children, and perhaps many more. Only 25 or so escaped, because they lay hidden under the fallen bodies of their neighbors...
Last year, after the UMass contest, David Knapp, the president of that school, wrote to President Bok suggesting that the band clean up its act. The group has apparently responded by shifting its focus from the harmlessly obscene to the grotesque, making jokes about brutal massacres and bloody wars. The band may be slow to learn. But it should take Knapp's advice and remember the combination of bad taste and good humor that brought them success in years past...
...brutal murders of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, 49, and Supervisor Harvey Milk, 48, in their city hall offices almost five years ago set in motion events that are still unfolding. Moscone's death resurrected the then fading political career of Dianne Feinstein, who as president of the board of supervisors automatically succeeded him as mayor. She later won election in her own right. Milk, the self-styled "mayor of Castro Street" (the center of San Francisco's major homosexual district), became a martyred pioneer of gay politics and a recognized trail blazer...