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Millennial expectations and predictions have been occurring ever since the time of Jesus, but most, oddly, bear no relation to the actual beginning of new centuries. One of the bloodiest episodes came during the German Peasants' War of 1524-25, in which preacher Thomas Muntzer, whose ravings anticipated Marx by centuries, played a leading role. American preacher William Miller prophesied that Jesus would return in 1843 or 1844. Enthusiastic Millerites ; waited eagerly, only to see several deadlines pass uneventfully. Many Jehovah's Witnesses, led to expect the End, most recently in 1975, have left the apocalyptic group in confusion...
...COUNT MIGHT YET GO HIGHER: SOME 200 OF THE nearly 2,400 injured might succumb, and cleanup crews might find more bodies in burned-out buildings. But the death toll, currently 53, already certifies the Los Angeles riots as the bloodiest in the U.S. in at least 75 years. And the embers from more than 5,500 fires still smolder, metaphorically -- as George Bush found out touring the riot areas last week. His guardians were so concerned for his security that they would not tell TV crews what route he would take, lest live coverage draw hostile demonstrators. But some...
...Armenians, Karabakh has seen more than 1,500 people die since 1988, when Armenians and Azeris, each side claiming the enclave as its own, began their skirmishing with hunting rifles. They have now graduated to modern weapons, including tanks, missiles and heavy artillery, turning their ethnic conflict into the bloodiest and most intractable of the many such conflicts bequeathed by the Soviet Union to the new Commonwealth of Independent States...
...Bloodiest Year...
Again, even if we don't buy Lane's conclusion about CIA complicity in the Kennedy assassination, 20 years of investigations have shown that the CIA was no stranger to complicity in assassinations. We know how the best and brightest blue bloods bonded with the bloodiest and dirtiest Mafia hit men in plots to kill Castro. We know the freak-show side of the agency that used damaging mind-control drugs on unsuspecting citizens; we know that the agency's own top counterspy, James Angleton, paralyzed the place with his paranoid suspicions that KGB moles and false defectors had penetrated...