Word: harshness
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...raised in the former French African territory of Cameroon.) Dampening Yannick's win only slightly was a 42-day suspension and $20,000 fine from the International Tennis Federation for his refusal to participate in a scheduled tournament last month. The punishment was stiff, but nowhere near as harsh as the one levied last week against Argentine Gulilermo Vilas, 31, who drew a year's suspension for accepting money simply to show up for a tournament in Rotterdam...
...military dictatorship, Belaúnde, 69, declared a 60-day national state of emergency, suspending civil liberties and giving police broad powers to seize suspected guerrillas for up to ten days without charges. Within 24 hours, police had arrested 200 people, although all but 14 were subsequently released. The harsh actions run counter to the government's efforts to promote democracy in Peru, but they reflect the seriousness of the challenge the insurgents now pose. Admits an Interior Ministry official: "We underestimated Sendero...
...President Bok issued a broad attack on the American legal system, calling it inequitable and inefficient, and blaming it for draining too many fine minds from productive fields. The report received wide publicity, including praise from several newspapers, and harsh criticism from many lawyers...
...companies acting as a progressive force in South Africa. On the one hand, the government has begun to seek the counsel of the business community and has repealed many of the regulations blocking Black training and advancement and trade union organization. Yet, at the same time, Pretoria has proposed harsh new laws restricting even more the movement of the majority Black population within the country and has adopted a new constitutional plan that includes some coloreds and Asians in the Parliament, but adamantly excludes Blacks...
...overcrowding, housing in horse stalls and tarpaper shacks, gross lack of privacy, poor sanitation and inadequate food. Dozens of internees were shot and wounded by the armed guards, some committed suicide out of over-whelming despair, and many more died prematurely due to the inadequate medical facilities and the harsh environment. These are just some of the well-documented facts, and fall short of doing justice to describing the magnitude of the internees' ordeal. And as the recent hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians so dramatically showed, the humiliation and the anger still bura deeply...