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Deffenbaugh added that this type of case is typical is South Africa, although the sentences were unusually harsh. He said their severity was probably due to growing government insecurity as a result of increasing guerrilla activities in the north and the fall of the once-friendly colonial regimes in neighboring Mozambique and Angola...
...from being a protesting citizen of Germany when atrocities were going on," he says. Only by grasping the "enormity of the offense" and of the pressure on the young, Fallows adds, can you understand why what everyone did then--on both sides--was "so extreme and so unreasonable...sounded harsh, inhuman, bitter and wrong and cruel...irrational...
...increase Government spending by at least $100 billion and boost taxes for everyone earning more than $14,000 a year. At almost the same moment, Carter was promising he would "never" boost taxes on wages or salaries, a pledge that could prove tough to keep. Though Carter muted his harsh rhetoric of the previous week, he nonetheless characterized the past two Republican Administrations as "wasteful," "incompetent," "ineffective" and "fuzzy-headed." So much for the high road...
Ford said after the game that the trip was accidental and a free shot should not have been allowed. "It was a harsh call; he [the official] did not make it right away," he said. Nevertheless, Jonas calmly blasted the penalty kick home, putting Dartmouth ahead...
...images in Autumn form brilliant thematic patterns. In the first chapter we see unforgettably "dead craters of harsh moon ash on the endless plain where the sea had been," we hear "a disaster of hoofs and animal sighs from behind the fortified walls," we smell "the lunar dust-covered rosebuds under which the lepers had slept." Such descriptions return to haunt us, as they do the patriarch; they are fragments of a real or created past, the whole of which we do not know and he has forgotten...