Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...icier than ice" and says, "I swear that I will never understand why he agreed to see me." Ayatullah Khomeini may have agreed to see her because she had been so rough on the Shah ("Let's get back to you, Majesty. So intransigent, so harsh, maybe even ruthless, behind that sad face"). Fallaci wore a floor-length black chador to interview the Ayatullah, then, getting angry, dramatically announced, "I'm going to take off this stupid medieval rag right now." She told Libya's dictator, Colonel Gaddafi, that she was going to conduct a "kind...
...Kremlin is that Moscow will soon be facing a time of great decisions as the current aging and ailing leadership is replaced. Any U.S. policy will have to take the Kremlin's new leaders into account. Warns Sovietologist Simes: "As they consolidate their power, they will be tough and ruthless, particularly domestically and in Eastern Europe." Harvard's Huntington agrees that there is "not a very happy period" ahead for U.S.-Soviet relations. Says he: "The Soviets obviously believe that the time has come for them to assert themselves on the global scene and to capitalize on the military might...
...most brutal blow from the Soviet Union's steel fist since the Red Army's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. In a lightning series of events last week, Afghanistan's President Hafizullah Amin was overthrown, and subsequently executed, in a ruthless coup mounted by the Soviet Union and carried out with the firepower of Soviet combat troops. In Amin's place, Moscow installed Babrak Karmal, a former Deputy Prime Minister long considered to be a Soviet protégé, but not before Russian troops were forced to fight a sporadic series of gun battles...
...crashed head-on into a truck while he was driving to his base camp in Mozambique. Officials there, as well as diplomats, judged the death accidental, but among some of his followers there was speculation that he might have run afoul of rivalries inside the guerrilla movement. A magnetic, ruthless soldier, Tongogara, 41, had played a key role in favor of a settlement, and British officials fear it might be jeopardized without him to help hold it together...