Word: downrightness
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Throughout the years of the Khmer Rouge atrocities, claims Shawcross, most Westerners remained either ignorant or downright skeptical of refugee reports of mass slaughter, but as soon as Viet Nam invaded and permitted a few foreigners to inspect the ghostly nation, the West responded vigorously. The press reported a "holocaust"; Washington increased aid to Kampuchean refugees by a factor of ten (to $69 million); five international relief agencies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Children's Fund, 60 private volunteer bodies and the interests of 60 governments converged upon the broken land...
...least met, multitudes of VIP's from around the world. And he spends nearly 250 pages relaying anecdotes and recollections of almost all of them. What Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands wore or what King Farouk said is about as serious as this book becomes. It would be downright irritating if it weren't so enjoyable...
Mixing sports and politics is fashionable, but in Bolivia the combination tends to be downright confusing. Four years ago, Bolivia did not send a team to the 1980 Summer Olympics. Though officials blamed a strapped economy, some accused the government of joining the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games...
...ruling sounded more fitting for El Salvador than the U.S. Indeed, last week's Supreme Court decision upholding Hawaii's right to break up large privately held estates and redistribute ownership to the tenants seemed downright radical. But the unanimous 8-0 ruling* was made for the most conservative of reasons. Said Hawaii's deputy attorney general Michael Lilly: "It's a classic states' rights case...
...world's most famous entertainer, but Michael Jackson, 25, is hardly the outgoing type. Nevertheless, the usually reclusive superstar had a downright gregarious week as he slipped into New York City, where he recorded a duet called State of Shock with Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, 40, for a new album expected out next month. During his stay in the Big Apple he showed up backstage after taking in Shirley MacLaine's Broadway hit. Then it was off to Washington, where he checked into the Four Seasons Hotel virtually unnoticed, until he asked the management to install...