Word: bloodiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orders from their Rasputin-like leader, a band of hippies, clad in black, allegedly broke into a secluded Los Angeles home last August. In the orgy of hacking, stabbing and shooting that followed, Starlet Sharon Tate, 26, and four other people were killed. It was one of the grisliest, bloodiest, and apparently most senseless crimes of the century...
...Sudan's three rebellion-wracked southern provinces sprawl across the turbulent boundary line between the Arab world to the north and Black Africa to the south. It is in these provinces, where the grassy savannah meets the tropical forest, that the clash between the two worlds has been bloodiest. Africa's largest country in terms of area, the Sudan is dominated by the 9,000,000 Arabs of the north; the south's 4,000,000 blacks have long felt ignored by the Moslem politicians in Khartoum. In 1955, a year before the Sudan achieved independence, black...
Instead, in the bloodiest single period of the war, Anya Nya rebels attacked government forces, brutally mutilating an Arab sergeant at Juba in the process. The Arab soldiers went berserk, killing hundreds of blacks and burning countless huts...
EVICTED from the Mob's top hierarchy in 1964, Joe Bonanno of New York-one of the bloodiest killers in Cosa Nostra's history-eventually retired to Tucson, Ariz., where, amid his fig and orange trees, he now lives modestly, reflecting on his days of power and plotting his comeback. His life is not entirely normal, however. The FBI tried, unsuccessfully, to recruit his confidant and all-round handyman, David Hill, 21, as an informer. Once a bomb landed in Bonanno's backyard. He thinks that an FBI agent may have prompted two young thugs to throw...
...same time, they are caught in the vise of their own simplistic code of honor ("When you side with a man, you stay with him," Bishop says). Mapache betrays them from one side while the bounty hunters attack from another, and they are all finally wiped out in the bloodiest battle ever put on film...