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Scheer, his voice made hollow by several thousand miles of telephone wire from San Francisco warns, "He's a sharp, cunning, ruthless politician. And if you buy that mystic stuff, you're crazy...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Lowered Expectations in the Pastures of Plenty | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

...Make no mistake about it. Smith is a bloody ruthless man with opponents," warns a member of the white opposition. But Smith's most recent displays of ruthlessness have sharply reduced the options available to his government. White Rhodesians' insistence on racial segregation and Smith's vacillation and calculatedly divisive tactics in dealing with the ANC have led directly to the increasingly violent challenge to continued minority rule in Rhodesia. Smith's attempts to withstand the economic, military and diplomatic pressure to capitulate have made "consequences too ghastly to contemplate" all the more probable. The sooner Smith capitulates the more...

Author: By Lawrence B. Cummings, | Title: Smith Cornered in Rhodesia | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

...against the S.S. and the Police taking drastic steps and putting those known as slackers in concentration camps. Let it happen several times and the news will go around." For all his efforts to distinguish himself from the rest of Hitler's clique, Speer was no less brutal or ruthless than the rest...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Nazi Notebooks | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

...interview," Patty also was quoted by the Harrises as saying she had heard that the FBI wanted to kill her and blame the crime on the S.L.A. Then, with outraged public opinion on its side, the FBI presumably could have mounted a ruthless attack on all revolutionary groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Patty's Terrifying Story | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

Copeland, who had served in Britain's Parachute Regiment, was ordered court-martialed by F.N.L.A. Leader Holden Roberto, and shot by a firing squad. "Callan" reportedly escaped and hid out in the bush, nursing a leg wound. The British mercenaries called him "completely ruthless" and a "homicidal maniac." They said he spent much of his time shooting black tribesmen just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Mercenaries: 'A Bloody Shambles' | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

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