Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just the election bloodbath that outraged Haitians and international observers. Hours after civilian election officials halted the polling in hopes of curbing the violence, Lieut. General Henri Namphy, head of the military-dominated junta, dissolved the independent nine-member electoral council. Haitians and diplomats alike denounced the move as a "coup d'etat against the constitution."Council members refused to step down, labeling Namphy's move an "act of high treason" and declaring void any elections that the government organizes in the future. At least one presidential candidate demanded that the junta step down...
After the guns and the machetes had finished their gruesome work last week, Haiti's election-day bloodbath claimed another victim: U.S. support for the provisional government of Lieut. General Henri Namphy. Having insisted for months that Namphy was a staunch friend of democracy, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, White House officials were suddenly scrambling for a new policy to help restore order and ensure free elections. The search quickly swelled into an international debate over how far the U.S. and other countries should go to intervene in the affairs of Haiti. At the center of the dispute...
...facilities. The Pentagon dispatched an Army Special Operations Forces group to Atlanta. Yet no one was anxious to resort to force, remembering the lessons of the 1971 uprising at New York's Attica prison, where after four days of inconclusive talks lawmen stormed the facility and touched off a bloodbath in which 32 prisoners and eleven guards and other civilian personnel died. Experts on hostage situations have since tended to focus on negotiations, however protracted, as the best way of wearing down the other side. That seemed to be the stance of Michael Quinlan, director of the Federal Bureau...
...process is called a "correction," which makes it sound like a painless, orderly affair. But last week's bloodbath on Wall Street was more aptly dubbed an "October massacre." Turmoil and outright fear shook the financial markets as stampeding hordes of investors got caught up in a mood that had been almost absent during the go-go 1980s: bearishness. Over the course of less than two months, in the worst setback since the bull market began five years ago, the value of U.S. stocks has plunged by nearly half a trillion dollars...
...transports belatedly began ferrying minesweeping helicopters from Norfolk, Va. A Navy helicopter trying to land on the command ship of the task force crashed, with four Americans presumed dead. And the whole region was on edge in the wake of a protest by Iranian pilgrims that turned into a bloodbath in the Saudi Arabian holy city of Mecca. The week's events reminded a twitchy U.S. of the very real risks that come with flying the flag in far-flung corners of the world...