Word: ruthlessness
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...believed one of the assassins may have been wounded. Paraguayan police launched a manhunt for suspected members of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a leftist Argentine guerrilla group. Their presumed motive: solidarity with Nicaragua's Sandinista revolutionaries, who succeeded in overthrowing the Somoza family's ruthless 43-year dynasty last year after a bitter civil war. At week's end, one suspected ERP ringleader was killed in a shootout and 60 people had been picked up for questioning...
...University of Alabama football teams, Paul William ("Bear") Bryant is a nearly mythic figure, a man who embodies the traditional American values: dedication, hard work, honesty and, above all, success. To the frustrated fans of the legions of teams he has defeated, he is a relentlessly slippery recruiter, a ruthless win-at-all-costs tyrant. To some, he is the demigod of the autumn religion, the finest coach of a uniquely American game. To others, he is the proselytizer of a brutal sport, a symbol of a national fixation on violence...
Amid these indications of increasingly ruthless conflict, TIME Correspondent Marcia Gauger crossed the country last week. Traveling by public bus with Tyler Marshall of the Los Angeles Times, she journeyed hi six days from Spinbaldak on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to the city of Herat in the far west. Her report...
...dependent on the other. The Ewing Oil empire supports the ranch home; the business keeps the family together. J.R. may behave like a raffish amalgam of Machiavelli and the Marquis de Sade, but if he is evil, he is a strong, necessary evil for the weaker family members. His ruthless devotion to expanding the Ewing empire almost justifies his weakness for the three Bs: booze, bribes and broads. Oil work and no play would make J.R. a dull boy-and would have scuttled Dallas long...
...Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. In 1953, right-wing monarchists in the army unsuccessfully attempted to depose Mossadegh; the Shah was forced to flee to Rome. A few days later, however, a countercoup sponsored by the CIA restored him to the throne. The Shah launched a ruthless purge, particularly of remnants of the Communist Tudeh Party, which had been outlawed in 1948. He also organized a secret-police network, SAVAK, that was to become one of the most notorious in the world...