Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ravaged, riot-torn areas of his capital in a tour that the pro-Gandhi National Herald declared "had an efficacious and reassuring impact on the morale of the people." Then, in answer to chilling claims that the police had simply shrugged their shoulders or looked away while the bloodbath continued, the new Prime Minister fired the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi, P.G. Gavai, and replaced him with Home Secretary M.M.K. Wali...
...dangerous radical, black militants see him as too temperate. Tutu, who rejects government categories and calls himself "detribalized," says he faces a "rough passage" in pleading with young black audiences for interracial concord and peaceful change. And although Tutu does not advocate violence, he warns continually of a coming "bloodbath" if whites do not share power with the black majority. Afrikaners, he notes, praise their own gun-toting forebears but "suddenly become pacifists when it involves black liberation. Blacks don't believe they are introducing violence into the situation. They believe the situation is already violent...
Duarte's move was hailed by Bishop Marco René Revalo Contreras, president of the Salvadoran Episcopal Conference, as "a decisive moment that could permit a suspension of the bloodbath in our country." Said Mark Falcoff, a resident fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: "Duarte is showing a kind of brilliance and political imagination that U.S. Presidents sometimes lack...
...declaration by the British Government that they will defend the Ulstermen's right of self-determination forever. Americans may find it hard to believe, but in the mainland that is a more difficult case to sell than that Britain should abandon this dependent and warring colony to its own bloodbath. But Mrs. Thatcher should have the courage to say it and mean it for the first time since she came to office, instead of treating the problem as an infuriating irritant which might eventually go away. For its part, the Republic's government should have the courage...
Like their big brothers in Washington, the Harvard administration doesn't care at all about "free speech." They try to crush students who mobilize against the architects of an anticommunist bloodbath in Central America because when they look at EI Salvador and Nicaragua, they see the possibility of the Russian Revolution happening all over again. They see the overthrow of capitalism, the ripping away of their markets, their profits, an end to the despotic rule of the landlords, bosses, military, and the specter of workers and peasants taking power--as was done in 1917 in Russia under the leadership...