Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report paints a grim portrait of Viet Nam. More than 60,000 political prisoners, it says, remained detained in "reeducation camps" without ever having been brought to trial. Citizens cannot travel, or even change residences, without permission. The press practices rigid self-censorship. There is no freedom of assembly. The forecast for future political rights in Viet Nam? Concludes the report: "Bleak...
...their way home from school skip across the weed-covered burial ground, looking for bits of refuse that can serve as toys. They seem ignorant or uncaring of the fact that beneath their feet lie the bodies of some 200 of the estimated 700 people slaughtered during those 38 grim hours last fall...
...Khuzistan province. It was the beginning of yet another major effort to drive enemy forces from Iranian soil, seize Iraqi territory in return, and ultimately bring down the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Although the offensive apparently failed to score any immediate breakthrough, it was clear that another grim and bloody chapter in the 2½-year-old Persian Gulf war was in the making...
Facing these grim facts of life, all 13 A.C.M. colleges are eager to become better known in the growing Southwest. To save money and attract a bigger audience, they mounted a joint recruiting effort and made a recent four-day whirlwind tour of Denver, Albuquerque, Tucson and Phoenix...
...PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS of Shatila and Sabra he in the midst of West Beirut, surrounded by a stadium, two hospitals and a post office. During normal times, living conditions for the several thousand refugees are grim yet not unbearable. Sustained by their dream of a Palestinian homeland the men, women and children make do without "luxuries" like running water, electricity and modern sanitation. They can ignore the wooden shacks and mud floors. And they can forget their status as a wandering people whose houses are not really homes...