Word: heavyhandedness
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If the Brotherhood's goal was to provoke more repression that in turn would alienate more Syrians from the regime, it succeeded. Since the late 1970s, the elaborate security apparatus?which includes the Mokhabbarat, the secret police organization with some 20,000 to 30,000 members, and Saraya al Difa...
A Liberal, Aquino was thinking of running against Marcos in 1987, and had been working with opposition leaders against the President's heavyhanded rule. One of those leaders, Assemblyman Salvador Laurel, was at the airport along with thousands of Aquino followers when the assassination occurred. As word of the...
Clark's obsession with secrecy and press leaks has created political difficulties for the White House. Last spring, when the Administration was desperately trying to save the MX program, Clark tried to go ahead, on his own, with the appointment of Robert Dornan, a right-wing, very hawkish former...
The document criticized the "unprecedented" U.S. defense buildup. The Soviet Union and its allies, it said, would not "allow military superiority to be achieved over them." But this oft-repeated warning stopped short of the heavyhanded Soviet hints dropped on the eve of the Williamsburg summit that the Warsaw Pact...
Even fringe politics seems zanier than elsewhere. At this year's May Day demonstration in MacArthur Park, 200 members of the Revolutionary Communist Party were like heavyhanded caricatures of Commies, shouting, "We spit on the red, white and blue!"