Word: brutality
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Progress toward peace in Angola may produce a spillover effect elsewhere in Africa. The government of President Joaquim Chissano in Mozambique, another war-torn former Portuguese colony, is reportedly ready to open negotiations with the insurgents of the Mozambique National Resistance, a brutal movement whose 14-year antigovernment campaign has laid waste to the economy and killed thousands of civilians. Chissano was among those who persuaded Dos Santos to talk peace with UNITA -- and may wind up taking his own advice...
...because the inability to relinquish the past can produce such horror that memory -- what place, what price, what power to give it -- is a central question in the great historical transition from dictatorship to democracy. All the new Latin democracies, for example, are emerging from periods of brutal dictatorship. What to do with this past? Uruguay chose, by referendum, a forgetting. It voted to let the brutalities of military rule be bygone. Argentina did the opposite. It prosecuted those who gave the orders for torture and execution. The Argentine experience, however, with its semiannual military revolts and its reversion...
...government's efforts to bury the shattered remains of the democracy movement and to provide a justification for the brutal military suppression near Tiananmen Square play far better outside the capital. There memories of the dunce caps, denunciations and deaths of the Cultural Revolution may be more vivid than the fuzzy reports of recent events in Beijing. Even in Shanghai, China's largest city and a hotbed of pro-democracy activity just two weeks ago, the spy-on-your-neighbor campaign is having the intended effect. Says a Shanghai cabdriver: "Bad elements took over the student movement. The army bravely...
Perhaps so. But it was not too early for the world to recognize Poland's remarkable political performance for what it was: in the year of Communism's historic identity crisis -- a time of glasnost in the Soviet Union, brutal repression in China and political unease in the rest of Eastern Europe -- Poland had launched a democratic experiment unique in the Communist world. "It makes us rethink the proposition that Stalinism is eternal," said a U.S. official. "Now we don't know for sure that Stalinism is above being reformed...
...republic, located in the southern part of the U.S.S.R. The worst outbreak of ethnic mayhem in the modern Soviet era began on the night of June 3, in the city of Fergana (pop. 190,000), 150 miles southeast of Tashkent, as bands of native Uzbeks staged a series of brutal attacks on minority Meskhetian Turks, who were deported from Georgia in 1944 by Joseph Stalin. Most of the 190,000 displaced Meskhetians settled in Uzbekistan, a region that did not always welcome their presence...