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This time the desperate nation was Burundi. Vicious fighting erupted in the central African state when military officers from the Tutsi tribe murdered President Melchior Ndadaye, a member of the rival Hutus. As the attempted coup collapsed, both tribes massacred thousands of people and put hundreds of thousands to flight. Please, government officials begged the United Nations, send us peacekeepers...
...also accuses the UC of trapping itself in a vicious cycle of scandal after scandal. The easiest reply to this charge is that it is very difficult to take it seriously from a writer for a newspaper which embroiled itself for several months in an almost childish dispute over whether or not the president of the publication would have to remove his shirt to get his own chair back from a group of writers. Lest I be confused for White, I will not resort to this easy cheap shot. Instead, let me say that the recent controversy over the results...
...vicious war between hostile races! Caged humans and imperialist beasts! Conspiracy rampant! Sound like a perfect Oliver Stone subject? Well, it is. The director of Platoon and JFK is ready to produce a new Planet of the Apes. Target date...
Shadowy figures carrying rifles and machine guns line the rooftops. Others with pistols tucked in their belts drink and sleep beneath the balconies of shuttered shops. They are ragged and vicious, an army of thugs pulled together by Haiti's uniformed rulers from the remnants of the feared Tontons Macoutes, enforcers who served the Duvalier dictatorships, and hundreds of hangers-on who were fired from menial government jobs when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide took office...
...issue two years ago was justified and appropriate. But this time around, no one on campus should glorify this mindless moralizing and homophobic hatred. The BGLSA rally last Friday and the follow-up letter in Saturday's Crimson were surely an adequate (if not excessive) response to Mansfield's vicious and baseless attacks on homosexuality...