Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Real pessimists predict a three-year bloodbath, especially if upper-crust vacationers don't show up in the predicted numbers, leaving half-empty high-cost hotels. The Strip's bread-and-butter visitor isn't likely to trade up to $150-a-night rooms from $49 ones, even if there's a mint on the pillow. Hilton chief Bollenbach (who is also on the board at Time Warner, the parent company of TIME) is predicting 18 months of bruising battles, with older, smaller properties taking a hit from big outfits like...
...control of the entire Congo to stop the massacres of Tutsi both inside Congo and beyond its borders, but Zimbabwean and Angolan forces have shored up Kabila's shaky defenses. "Angola and Zimbabwe's involvement will definitely raise the body count," says Mutiso. "This may well turn into a bloodbath" -- all of which might be avoided if the rebels can assure Angola's security. Then again, with fierce battles already under way, that could...
...more immediate danger is of a brutal bloodbath in Kosovo. Since 1991, when Milosevic cracked down in the province, some 200 ethnic Albanians have died. Now the Serb death toll is rising in step. On both sides, even the most devoted seekers of peace--and there are fewer and fewer of them--see little chance of avoiding a war. In Vojnik, where Bahri is home from the hospital and recovering from his leg wound, the villagers are already there. "The Serb authorities have lost control," says hoxha Abdyl Krasniqi. "But you can't say we are liberated...
...hard to feel safe in a lot of places in Mexico, despite the best efforts of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon. The Acteal bloodbath is just the latest instance of what sometimes appears to be the virtual collapse of public security in the country. From the slums of Tijuana to the hilltop mansions of Mexico City, a rising wave of violent crime, kidnappings and human- rights atrocities has gripped the nation. Many refer to it as the "Colombianization" of the country, a reference to the even scarier levels of violence inspired by drug mafias and paramilitary gangs in that...
...Doug Morris' recent career were a rock single, it could well be Shake, Rattle and Roll. Morris was purged from top-ranked Warner Music following a nasty 1995 corporate bloodbath that shook out top management. "It was unprofessional...and unclassy," says Morris of the event. Though rattled, he soon became chairman of Seagram's Universal Music Group. And now he's on a roll. He boosted Universal's market share to third place from fifth and tripled earnings to $72 million this fiscal year, making music one of the few bright spots in Seagram's media diversification...