Word: harshness
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...elected, Mitterrand needs time for his new economic rigueur to work, and he must somehow retain the support of his traditional constituents on the shop floor. Back in 1981, he stood in Longwy and pledged that the steel industry would be the "spearhead" of an industrial revival in France. Harsh reality has turned that promise to ashes, but his audience that day will not let him forget it. -By John Nielsen. Reported by Jordan Bonfante/Paris and Thomas A. Sanctm/Longwy
...pulling both military and political strings behind the folksy, conservative Suazo. The charge was one that Alvarez took no great pains to deny. A colonel when he took over as armed forces chief, he arranged his own series of promotions to five-star general. Fiercely antiCommunist, he launched a harsh antiterrorist campaign and enthusiastically backed the Reagan Administration in creating a regional military training center in Honduras. There, some 100 Green Berets are now training as many as 1,000 Salvadoran troops for their war against the F.M.L.N. While negotiating the training-center deal with Washington, Alvarez largely ignored...
...study is persuasive, largely because it is politically neutral. Equal criticism goes to brutal regimes of the left and the right; for example, both North and South Korea are cited for extensive use of torture. Also, Israeli treatment of West Bank Palestinians receives harsh condemnation...
...government itself can act so blatantly in contradiction to its own laws, the implication must be that international legislation will be even less effective. Therefore, the primary goal of commendable organizations such as AI must be to provide information; the harsh realities of torture must be graphically illustrated to inspire any action. The response must then come from the centers of power, particularly those of the West...
...Ralph: Harsh words, Wanda. Have I ever uttered a single word against the sainted cause of the revolution...