Word: bloodbath
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...declaration by the British Government that they will defend the Ulstermen's right of self-determination forever. Americans may find it hard to believe, but in the mainland that is a more difficult case to sell than that Britain should abandon this dependent and warring colony to its own bloodbath. But Mrs. Thatcher should have the courage to say it and mean it for the first time since she came to office, instead of treating the problem as an infuriating irritant which might eventually go away. For its part, the Republic's government should have the courage...
Like their big brothers in Washington, the Harvard administration doesn't care at all about "free speech." They try to crush students who mobilize against the architects of an anticommunist bloodbath in Central America because when they look at EI Salvador and Nicaragua, they see the possibility of the Russian Revolution happening all over again. They see the overthrow of capitalism, the ripping away of their markets, their profits, an end to the despotic rule of the landlords, bosses, military, and the specter of workers and peasants taking power--as was done in 1917 in Russia under the leadership...
...British Journalist William Shawcross. In his 1979 work, Sideshow, the author argued that through secret bombings the Nixon Administration had almost casually devastated Kampuchea (then called Cambodia), thereby facilitating the murderous rise of the Communist guerrillas of the Khmer Rouge. Here Shawcross investigates the horrors that came after the bloodbath. Drawing extensively from official reports, international-relief-organization memos, firsthand experiences and interviews with protagonists from all sides, he has put together an assiduously detailed account of how, as one senior Red Cross official put it, "humanitarianism was used to prolong an agonizing political deadlock...
...Honduras into an American military base, and the U.S. game of "nuclear chicken", ramming Soviet subs, are no "exercises" but war provocations. And Harvard is doing it's part for the anti-Soviet war drive by trying to crush students who mobilize against the architects of an anti-Communist bloodbath in Central America...
Ultimately more of the students sees change in South Africa without violence "I've become pretty disillusioned", says Lelyveld. "The torture and repression in the country are very real. The more I look at the problem. I can't see any way to end it without this horrible bloodbath. A when it comes, which it will, I just hope we're on the right side...