Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reversed, a highhanded decision to withhold the election results and even nullify them. Finally, after conflicting victory claims by the rival parties, the first official results showed that the apparent winner was the broadly based United People's Congress (U.P.C.), headed by Milton Obote, 56, the shrewd, sometimes ruthless former President who was deposed by Amin...
...full days he visited museums, monuments and neighborhoods in an effort "to get the city back in my eyes." Rosenblatt found our nation's capital as perplexing and contradictory as many Presidents have found it. Says he: "How can a city be at once so gracious and so ruthless...
...their yearning for stability, most South Koreans seem ready to accept Chun's ruthless purge of his enemies and his jailing of student leaders. Meanwhile, Chun will continue to push his popular reforms: crackdown on government corruption, reorganization of lagging industries, encouragement of foreign investment...
DIED. Ladislas Farago, 74, Hungarian-born author of books on espionage and war (The Game of the Foxes, The Broken Seal) who claimed in 1972 that Hitler's ruthless deputy Martin Bormann was alive and posing as a businessman in Argentina; after a brief illness; in New York City...
...ruthless, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people": so one medieval Irish text described the Vikings. "They are the dirtiest of God's creatures," sniffed Arab Historian Ibn Fadlan, who had seen and smelled a Viking encampment on the banks of the Volga in the 10th century, "and they do not wash themselves after sex." Thus, as Hilaire Belloc sardonically put it in our own century...