Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death and that he should carry out his constitutional duty "no matter what, even at the cost of my own life and the lives of my family." Ro and Chung sided with the Premier, and Kim Jae Kyu suddenly found himself saddled with full responsibility for the bloodbath. He and his top KCIA lieutenants were placed in custody...
...funeral punctuated by wailing sirens. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and President Carter's son Chip joined representatives from 42 countries. The presence of the opposition party leader Kim Young Sam was evidence that the mourning period had brought South Koreans a time of political truce. A traumatic bloodbath was behind them, but they had every right to be apprehensive about its uncertain consequences...
Leonard Jarvis, 75, now a senior vice president with Shearson Hay den Stone, remembers Black Tuesday as "a bloodbath. It was horrible." In the days after the crash, he says, several of his friends committed suicide, one by jumping off the Daily News Building, another by leaping from his commuter train. One man asked a friend of Jarvis how someone could kill himself without pain; a drug was mentioned and the next morning the questioner was dead. Two weeks later the man who advised him shot himself. "They went one after another," says Jarvis. "They couldn't stand...
...months ago was directed against the Shah. There were also rumblings of discontent in the Kurdish areas of northern Iran. The leader of the Kurds, Sheik Ezzeddin Hossaini, warned that unless the new constitution protects "all the ethnic minority groups in the country," Iran would face a "bloodbath...
...serving in the police or the security forces? "Why did there have to be a power struggle at all? Why wasn't power handed over as it was in Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania? Now the situation is pathetic. We are almost at the point of a bloodbath. The guerrillas are everywhere. We come in and stay. We are already bolder than...