Word: bloodiest
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...Iranian oil terminals. The Chilean cluster bombs represent only a fraction of Iraq's huge arsenal, which consists mostly of weapons bought from the Soviet Union and France. But for Chile's budding arms industry the deal offers visibility, and perhaps field testing, in one of the bloodiest wars now under...
...planned to lift the state of emergency in the Andean highlands, imposed in October 1981 after repeated terrorist attacks by Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas. Replied Belaunde: "When not a drop of blood is spilled for 30 days." Last week the rebels made a gruesome response: the bloodiest attacks around the country since Sendero's emergence as a violent force in 1980. Armed with submachine guns, rifles and dynamite, the guerrillas attacked police posts, army patrols, bridges, power stations and telecommunications lines. An estimated 120 police, government troops and civilians were killed and scores injured, bringing the death...
...headed when their Bell 212 helicopter took off from Bogotá at dawn. The pilot had been given the top-secret coordinates minutes before takeoff, but not even he was sure of the destination. Suddenly the flag of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (F.A.R.C.), the oldest, largest and bloodiest of the country's numerous antigovernment guerrilla groups, was sighted in the jungle below. This time, however, the flag signified the making of history, not war. In a small clearing in the Alto de la Mesa rain forest, F.A.R.C. guerrillas and the government's representatives met to sign...
SOMETIMES it's easy to forget that the bloodiest and most ominous Mideast war is recent history has been raging for over two years. Israel hasn't been directly involved in the Iran/Iraq conflict. No U.S. forces have been directly committed, unlike in Lebanon. And yet the ferocity and scale of this war have been great, and if Iran wins the worldwide repercussions will be severe. Iran has fielded a half-million man army. Casualty estimates run into the tens of thousands. Iraq now seems to be using deadly mustard gas on a large scale. And a victory...
...usual, the awful sounds of battle shrieked through Beirut last week, but this time the fighting reached its bloodiest peak since last summer. Day and night, the clatter of machine-gun fire and the thump of shells could be heard not just in the city but throughout a 30-mile crescent stretching from Jounieh in the north to the mountain district of Kharroub. In the suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese Army clashed with Shi'ite militiamen. In the hills east of the city, government soldiers fought forces loyal to Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt. At the southern...