Word: vigilantism
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The aim of torture is virtually the same everywhere: to gain information about subversives, terrorists, opposition groups, and to intimidate would-be dissidents. A show of brutality can be a devastatingly effective way of keeping people in line. Yet in many Communist nations this is simply not necessary: the torture...
On the domestic scene, China will no doubt continue to stress production without sacrificing revolutionary fervor. China's press, for example, has been filled recently with Maoist exhortations ?all distinct echoes from the radical rhetoric of the Cultural Revolution ?about the crucial importance of political education and the...
But in its tolerance, the CUHS opens itself to criticism from the other side. Some feel that the Committee is not vigilant enough, that it fails to take its task as seriously as it should and that researchers in the department respond by treating the CUHS and its responsibility with...
Washington, for its part, fears that Assad could upset the delicate Middle East balance by pressing too hard for the Palestinians or by allowing the fedayeen to carry out more Golan raids, which would provoke Israeli retaliation against Syria, increasing the danger of renewed war. At least, however, Assad has...
THE MILITARY SITUATION: It is as it was before. On one side are the Syrians, on the other the Israelis. On each side, plenty of weapons, everyone vigilant. That is my description - brief and useful.