Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal Nigerian governor of the Eastern Region and thus held the key to all its resources. True to his profound belief in Nigerian unity, Ojukwu first argued against outright secession and urged Easterners to settle for a radical loosening of ties with the rest of Nigeria. The ruthless slaughter by the North, he pleaded, was "the final act of sacrifice that Easterners would be called upon to make in the interest of Nigerian unity...
...traumas of Viet Nam, riots in the cities, assassinations, the unresponsiveness of Congress-has led many to exaggerate their own political virtue. McCarthy loyalists have passionately protested the imposition of the unit rule in contests in which they have lacked a majority, but they have been just as ruthless as their opponents in invoking the unit rule when it worked in their favor. While the new politics of McCarthy has a refreshing directness, his followers have yet to establish that they themselves are above the petty manipulations that they condemn...
...this book cannot completely explain. To his followers, he is "Uncle Ho" when he writes burbling public letters to children: "You are rejoicing, and your Uncle Ho rejoices with you. Guess why? First, because I love you . . . '" To his political enemies, many of them dead, thanks to his ruthless purges, he has been a southern Maoist whose authority "issued from the muzzle of a rifle." Lacouture's final summation, which is something of a copout: in political role playing, an actor finally becomes the sum of all his favorite parts...
...Laurentian Mountains where "I replenish my emotions, find my inner directives." With his colleagues, Trudeau is a man of little small talk. He can be moody and, when dealing with lesser intellects, even irritable to the point of arrogance. When pursuing a political goal, he can be fierce, even ruthless...
Friends fell away. Some were killed in action; others, like Major General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the fearless, ruthless, but highly effective National Police chief, were wounded in street fighting in Saigon. Two weeks ago, a malfunctioning rocket fired from a U.S. helicopter gunship smashed into a forward command post and in one shattering blow wiped out virtually the whole top level of Saigon's city administration, including four of Ky's most powerful backers. But by far the greatest damage was caused by President Thieu's gradual consolidation of power: without consultation, he fired Premier Nguyen...