Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ample Evidence. In the Dominican Republic itself, the U.S. was instrumental in bringing an end to the Trujillo dictatorship. In the recent crisis, U.S. policy may well have suffered from some mistakes and misinformation. But the fact remains that the country was on the verge of a bloodbath, and that the Communists were swiftly profiting from the chaos. U.S. troops, whether 5,000 or 20,000, enforced a more or less peaceful settlement-and the U.S., in the end, was far tougher with the loyalist "reactionaries" than with the Communist-infiltrated rebels...
...inevitably there were still questions. No one knew whether Ramírez had gone berserk, as he claimed, or had deliberately planned a hijacking. What happened to the cook was unknown. It was fairly certain, at least, that the bloodbath occurred in U.S. jurisdictional waters. At week's end the Justice Department charged Ramírez with five counts of murder, one of piracy...
...months. Philip, however, did not say nothing. "I recognize," he remarked, "the impressions of many Africans about Rhodesia. But I think that it is better to spin out the solution of these difficulties with patience, and with a bit of luck get a peaceful result rather than risk a bloodbath by forcing the pace...
...Imbert had been insisting on a fight to the finish against Caamaño. He was still grumbling, and so were his officers, who were itching to clean out the rebels. But after days of talk with OAS Secretary-General Jose Mora, Imbert at last agreed that a bloodbath was hardly the answer to the Dominican Republic's ills, accepted an OAS plan to hold new elections, possibly within the next two to three months...
Unseemly Start. For the Zulus, the bloodbath at Isandhlwana was their greatest triumph in a war they had not sought and could not win. The British offensive, launched in 1879, inexorably rolled on to destroy the most powerful nation that Black Africa ever produced. Author Morris has burdened the story of the Zulu nation's fitful reign and ultimate decline with unessential detail and endless digression. But the story itself survives his maltreatment...