Word: ruthlessness
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...religion. In the fresh air of change, these mixed explosively, perhaps nowhere more so than in Iraq, which after independence in 1932, for three decades * experienced bloody and repeated coups and countercoups. The upheavals ceased in 1968, when the Baath Party won power and installed a regime so ruthless that effective opposition was simply crushed...
...hero, Dipp Schmidt, exhibits "that mixture of defiance and sheer bravado that gained him the instant respect of men and the passionate surrender of women." And General Cole Slaughton, the "brilliant, but ruthless" national security adviser, warns the president that if the Russians gain access to the wreck of the Pequod it could be "Salt-Watergate...
...many Arab Americans echo the charge that the U.S. employs a double standard, enforcing these U.N. sanctions against Iraq, while failing to press Israel to address the Palestinian problem. They are also bitter at the bigotry they have encountered since the crisis erupted. "I agree that Saddam is a ruthless dictator," says Mike Maatouk, 19, a sophomore at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, "but the end result of all this killing is that my Arab race, my people, are being pulled back 100 years. And all of a sudden every Arab person is your enemy...
Last week, The Crimson called on Bush to give the U.N.'s economic embargo of Iraq a chance to cripple Saddam's war machine. We agreed that the worldwide coalition could not tolerate the ruthless dictator's occupation of Kuwait indefinitely, but we believed (and still do believe) that the military force should be used only as a last resort...
Bush's letter framed the Gulf crisis as a "obvious conflict of good vs. evil." Citing atrocities by Iraqi forces documented by Amnesty International, Bush said that the United States has an "obligation to stop ruthless agression...