Word: harsher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shocked at the ease with which an unidentified craft was able to penetrate vital and heavily defended airspace. Initially, the Soviet press drew parallels between the two incidents, as if to minimize their seriousness. But TASS reported that during the emergency Politburo meeting the Soviet leadership took a far harsher view, and Soviet newscasters said an investigation would be conducted that could lead to the prosecution of some military personnel...
...Relations Committee, his hands clasped tightly, the diminutive State Department legal adviser, Abraham Sofaer, hardly looked the role of enfant terrible. But after being praised publicly by Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz, Sofaer last week stared straight ahead as Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts delivered a harsher verdict: "You may say the President hasn't created a constitutional crisis . . . maybe you have. Maybe your memorandum...
...were charged with murder, rape and kidnaping, and prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty against Heidnik. Twenty years ago, Heidnik's father, Michael, 74, a former Eastlake, Ohio, councilman, disowned the son, and he has not seen him since then. Last week he proclaimed an even harsher judgment: "Somebody who does something like that ought to be hung...
...spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, said he doubted that the number to be freed at the present time would exceed 280. He acknowledged that the Kremlin's action did not enjoy universal support within the party. "I can say to you that there are comrades who think the harsher the better," he declared. "But at the moment, we are heading into a softening, so that we may have fewer people behind bars and barbed wire." Significantly, the news of the mass release was made known to Western reporters but not to the Soviet public...
Reality, however, is much harsher. The political landscape of the Philippines remains largely unchanged. Many of Marcos' cronies are still in place and the government has studiously avoided any kind of a purge. Nothing has happened to affect the deep-seated structural problems which lie under what is one of the most unequal societies in the world...