Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than that, the self-styled crown prince agitated for a system of conservative dictatorship far removed from the intellectual socialism of his elders. Associated with a group of young toughs and regarded in some quarters as a lawless power broker, Sanjay hung around his doting mother like a dark and menacing shadow. As Indian Essayist Ved Mehta wrote in A Family Affair, "Rightly or wrongly, Sanjay was seen as representing the ruthless side of his mother...
...World sympathies make him highly skeptical of U.S. involvement abroad ("too often we are aligned with the landed gentry, the dictator, the oppressor"), and sometimes too forgiving of the excesses of revolutionary causes. He condemns U.S. covert operations in Central America as "a form of terrorism," but finds such lawless regimes as Muammar Gaddafi's Libya and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia merely "distasteful...
...being inefficient and expensive. Whether it manages to protect the rights of citizens. I think is more complicated, because a lot of rights are in fact protected. They are just protected at enormous cost. But the picture in that statement which is that the society is essentially or substantially lawless seems to me incorrect...
...Minnesotans, there have been no simple answers. In recent years, a better understanding of lupine behavior has resulted in a more sympathetic public image of the wolf. Wildlife biologists see them not as lawless, marauding killers, but as highly intelligent social creatures that are monogamous, dote on their young and howl complex messages. Still, in Minnesota's North Country, Canis lupus remains the Big Bad Wolf. Even after the Department of the Interior placed the Eastern timber wolf on the endangered species list in 1973, poaching continued at the rate of about 250 animals a year. Farmers complained...
...Coetzee's allegory, lawless street gangs have seized devastated cities; ferocious insurgents infest the countryside, blowing up railway tracks, mining the roads and attacking farmsteads; bands of robbers on the highways prey on the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have been driven from their homes. The government tries to keep order through a system of forced-labor camps, gulags of the veld where prisoners are obliged to sing patriotic songs while being worked to death...