Word: ruthlessness
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...tries to take control of his riven country, Gemayel also suffers from a more personal handicap, a reputation as a violent and ruthless strongman (see box). His stature was hardly helped by the brutal tactics that ensured his election last week...
...election as the first step toward strengthening the central government in Lebanon and creating a stronger military, essential steps if the withdrawal of both Israeli and Syrian troops is to be negotiated. But there are also skeptics in the Administration who fear that if Gemayel resorts to ruthless tactics he will only further fragment the country. Said a senior official in Washington...
Dragon's quarters, and when he launches into a demagogic diatribe about how hard and ruthless Germans need to be, we realize that this is Hitler...
WHITE'S PORTRAIT of Carter depicts the former president as an enormous contradiction: a deeply sincere man who honestly felt his 14-hour days, commitment to "human rights" and sermonizing did the country good, combined with a political animal willing to resort to ruthless campaign tactics. Of one thing White is certain--Carter was extraordinarily unprofessional...
...both Israeli and Palestinian withdrawal from Beirut. (The U.S. protested that the resolution did not call for a disarmament of the P.L.O.) The British government has roundly condemned the Israeli action in Lebanon, where, in the somewhat ironic words of one British diplomat, Israel has behaved "like a ruthless colonial power." By humiliating and destroying Arafat and the more moderate wing of the P.L.O., the British believe, Israel has provoked "a wholesale radicalization of the younger P.L.O. leadership...