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Nevertheless, the book cannot avoid leaving the reader with a vague, uncomfortable impression of sadness, pessimism, and frustration. Significantly, only two nations--Brazil and the UK in Northern Ireland--are cited for significant improvement during the past three years, and both have relatively high standards of living. And if any common denominator can be found in the most offensive regimes, it is poverty and poor living conditions. The study alludes to this basic problem...
...torture, according to the study. These include some of the largest industrial notions: China, the Soviet Union, Brazil and India, to name but a few. Every continent save North America experiences torture: even our strongest ally, Britain, is knows to have used extensive police brutality in war-torn Northern Ireland...
...defines torture quite broadly as "an aggravated and deliberate form of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," although this definition has been, challenged by various regimes, including the United Kingdom in reference to the accusations in Northern Ireland. However, even under this broad definition. Al takes a commendably strong stand against all forms of officially sanctioned brutality. Nor does the study exclude psychological or mental brutality from those practices it condemns. For this reason, Al censures the Soviet Union for its treatment of psychiatric prisoners, who are often political prisoners interned for "anti-social" acts. The use of drugs...
When gunfire ripped through downtown Belfast last week, office workers on their lunch break responded with weary resignation, learned from years of living dangerously. For twelve days Irish Republican Army terrorists had gone on a shooting spree, gunning down five people. By the grim rules of Northern Ireland's religious warfare, it was time for militant Protestants to strike back. Still, when the counterattack came, it proved to be more than the usual random raid against Roman Catholics. This time the Protestants' target was Gerry Adams, 35, president of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political...
...Ulster's chief constable, showing that terrorist incidents in 1983 had dropped to the lowest point since 1970. Events in Ulster also threatened to set back the efforts of Irish Prime Minister Garret Fitz-Gerald to gain support for a power-sharing scheme that would give Britain and Ireland joint responsibility for the troubled region. On a state visit to Washington last week, the Irish leader urged Americans not to make "common cause for any purpose, however speciously well meaning, with people who advocate or condone the use of violence in Ireland for political ends." One of those people...