Word: bloodiest
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...said to be responsible for one of the bloodiest airplane hijackings of the 1980s was shocked last week to find himself in a Washington court. Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq had been in a Ghanaian prison when authorities put him on a plane for Lagos, setting an elaborate police operation in motion. In a deal with the U.S., Nigeria refused to let him enter the country. U.S. agents who had slipped aboard the Nigeria-bound jetliner then had him arrested. Rezaq is said to be the sole survivor among the Palestinian hijackers who seized Egypt Air Flight 648 in 1985. After...
...Civil War, the battle which took place there on June 8, 1862, was a relatively minor event, especially when compared with epic battles at places like Antietam and Gettysburg. Cross Keys seems like just one of thousands of places where Northerners and Southerners fought and died in America's bloodiest...
...Harvard's upcoming commencement of law students and the Class of '93 the administration is showcasing two of the bloodiest recipients of official crimson acclaim in recent memory. On June 9th, President Clinton's new Attorney General Janet Reno will be the Harvard Law School's commencement speaker, exactly 50 days since she ordered the assault on the Waco religious sect causing the fiery massacre of 86 innocent people, including 25 children. This grotesque FBI assault against the Branch Davidians was carried out, as the government put it for "espousing doctrines hostile to law enforcement. "The next day, Harvard will...
More than 98% of voters in Eritrea elected to secede from Ethiopia, bringing to a peaceful close one of Africa's longest and bloodiest wars of independence. But economic development will not come so easily. Eritrea's government needs in excess of $2 billion to begin rebuilding the nation's shattered infrastructure, and any future prosperity may hinge on amicable ties with Eritrea's former rulers in Addis Ababa. Since the breakaway province now controls Ethiopia's only access to the Red Sea, it is a relationship neither side can afford to neglect...
WITH MORE THAN 3,000 POLITICAL DEATHS, 1992 was one of the bloodiest years in South African history -- bloody enough so that the threat of more violence and economic ruin has finally brought politicians to their senses. Seven months after negotiations collapsed, the African National Congress approved a compromise with President F.W. de Klerk's National Party that would establish a government with a guaranteed white minority for up to five years. Says A.N.C. Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa: "This is the proposal that will break the deadlock...