Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tufts colloquium, attended by more than 200 students, featured Richard Pipes, senior member of the National Security Council and Baird Professor of History, who said that the Soviets are "exacerbating problems, not solving them." He added that the Soviets "the great hawks who have survived the worst bloodbath of history"--have been famed by the Reagan Administration...
...reported bloodbath in Leimus, in which as many as 50 Miskito Indians were shot or drowned, was part of an operation ordered by the Sandinista high command in Managua to evacuate a zone some 50 miles deep on the Nicaragua-Honduras border from Santa Isabel eastward along the Coco River to the coast. Beginning in mid-December, Sandinista forces evacuated or burned between 25 and 40 Miskito villages, allegedly killed an estimated 200 inhabitants and resettled 8,500 to 10,000 more at internment camps in the Nicaraguan interior near Rosita and Siuna. Reason for the Sandinista campaign: the Miskitos...
...also trying to ease conditions for the detainees and to improve the arrangements for distributing relief supplies. According to Vatican sources, the Pope realizes that the church and the people are powerless against the regime's tanks and guns, and that violent resistance would only lead to a bloodbath and probably to a Soviet invasion...
...retained their command structure, organizational efficiency and firepower despite the purges by the embattled regime. Including the 195 people shot last week, 2,150 opponents of the government have been executed since deposed President Abolhassan Banisadr and Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi escaped to France in July. This kind of bloodbath, Rajavi declared last week, will not deter his guerrillas. Said he: "The Resistance is prepared to pay the heaviest price possible to liberate Iran from the shackles of reaction ary rule...
...status, as they did before Northern Ireland's civil rights movement erupted in 1968, both Callaghan and the Sunday Times proposed a bill of rights enforced by judges from Britain, the Irish Republic and the new state. Countering the oft-heard argument that British withdrawal would provoke a bloodbath, the paper said: "The luckless British army now provokes by its mere presence part of the bloodletting it came to stop...