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Both papers point out that Bradley had previously been eschewing scorched-earth politics.
All this in contrast to the stark scene evident everywhere in East Timor, what the LAT calls "the most vicious and thorough scorched-earth exercise that Southeast Asia has seen since World War II."
For the past two decades or so, All My Children's Susan Lucci has waged a scorched-earth campaign against small-town feminine niceness.
A sense of what should be engaging the country more than all of this comes with a reading of today's WP editorial about the current situation in Serbia . Various diplomats are quoted claiming that Serbian troops under the command of Slobodan Milosevic have shot many ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and through a scorched-earth policy are fixing to let many more--hundreds of thousands--starve to death.
This was a scorched-earth policy).