Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philippine Airlines ground mechanic who had been present at Manila International Airport on the day of the shooting. Balang's revelations were galvanizing: he was the first airport witness to give testimony under oath that is contrary to the military version of the event. His story raised grim new questions about the Marcos regime's contention that Aquino had been killed by Rolando Galman, a hired gun with alleged Communist ties. Said Juan David, a representative of the All-Asia Bar Association and an independent observer of the commission's proceedings: "The government story is beginning...
Appointed Director of National Security Programs at the K-School in August. Murray joined a five-man committee confronted with the grim task of assessing official blame for the October 23 terrorist attack on the Marines headquarters in Beirut which took 241 lives...
...region, however, no such quick or decisive victory for Administration policy seemed in sight. U.S. aid to the conservative government of El Salvador in its fight against a leftist insurrection, and to the contra rebels battling the Marxist-led government of Nicaragua, did little more than sustain grim guerrilla wars. Just as the U.S. did after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, the Soviet Union volubly denounced the U.S. moves but did not so much as hint at military action in retaliation. This underlined a rule of U.S.-Soviet competition...
With respected to politics, everything is very grim and there's terrible repression. We have lamented over many dramatic events. People sent into internal exile, mass torture, large scale illegal searches of homes, deaths, and on and on without end. The other day a man in Concepcion [Chile's second major city] lit himself on fire in the central plaza because his son and daughter had disappeared. They were being held in secret prison by the CNI [Chilrean Intelligence Service, known for its practice of brutal tortures...
...California state prison at San Quentin is a grim and foreboding symbol of the American way of punishment. The vast maximum-security prison is so old (parts of it date back to 1852) that it is a maze of outdated plumbing, frayed wiring and inadequate sanitation. It is so huge, and so many dangerous criminals are crowded into its antiquated facilities, that it is difficult for the guards to protect inmates from one another. As a result, hundreds of prisoners have been killed and wounded in a decade of violence. State prison officials have long wanted to tear San Quentin...