Word: ruthlessness
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...almost comically silly," Alsop wrote from Saigon last week, "to try to organize the kind of government in Viet Nam that will win the august approval of American editorial writers who know nothing of Asia and always seem to forget that the alternative is the bleak and ruthless tyranny of Asian Communism. There is no way out any longer, except to try to deal with the war crisis first, and to leave the political situation for later consideration. Dealing with the war crisis is the only way to create the essential conditions for comparative governmental stability. The government is unstable...
CHALLENGE OF MODERNISATION, by I. R. Sinai. An Israeli scholar argues that democratic ideals and Western aid will be largely wasted on underdeveloped countries until ruthless, single-minded leaders overcome their nations' psychological inertia and modernize their social structure toward the future economic "takeoff" point when they can begin to make realistic use of the West's largesse and technology...
...McLaughlin, who is a Honduran hotel worker, had been convicted of only one form of miscegenation. They had violated a Florida law forbidding an unmarried couple of different races to "habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room." And the court, so often decried as a ruthless uprooter of social customs, likes to speak strictly and cautiously on issues of sex and morality. It voided the Florida ban on interracial cohabitation, but it postponed the larger issue...
...does John Williams, as Trigorin, deteriorate in his key scenes. But he doesn't use them to reveal much of his character. Williams maintains a gently amused tone, never suggesting the almost accidentally ruthless element in Trigorin...
...side, Paz squelched the uprising. Then last week, the army's crack Ingavi Regiment revolted in La Paz-and rebellion flamed through garrisons all around the country. From his home town of Cochabamba, where he had gone to avoid Paz, Barrientos openly denounced the President as ruthless and called on him to resign...