Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...blueprint for economic change. Tadeusz Grabski, 51, a trained economist, was bounced from the Central Committee in 1979 for assailing Gierek's "misguided" economic policies. In domestic political matters, the refashioned Politburo is believed to be pragmatic, though its newest member, Mieczyslaw Moczar, 66, is a ruthless hardliner. As Interior Minister in the late 1960s, a position that gave him control of the security forces, Moczar brutally suppressed student demonstrations and led an odious anti-Semitic campaign that drove thousands of Jews from Poland...
...reversed, a highhanded decision to withhold the election results and even nullify them. Finally, after conflicting victory claims by the rival parties, the first official results showed that the apparent winner was the broadly based United People's Congress (U.P.C.), headed by Milton Obote, 56, the shrewd, sometimes ruthless former President who was deposed by Amin...
...full days he visited museums, monuments and neighborhoods in an effort "to get the city back in my eyes." Rosenblatt found our nation's capital as perplexing and contradictory as many Presidents have found it. Says he: "How can a city be at once so gracious and so ruthless...
...their yearning for stability, most South Koreans seem ready to accept Chun's ruthless purge of his enemies and his jailing of student leaders. Meanwhile, Chun will continue to push his popular reforms: crackdown on government corruption, reorganization of lagging industries, encouragement of foreign investment...
DIED. Ladislas Farago, 74, Hungarian-born author of books on espionage and war (The Game of the Foxes, The Broken Seal) who claimed in 1972 that Hitler's ruthless deputy Martin Bormann was alive and posing as a businessman in Argentina; after a brief illness; in New York City...