Word: bloodshedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EMERGENT Africa has known more than its share of strife and bloodshed, from the Mau Mau terror in Kenya to the carnage of Congolese secession. But in scope of suffering, in depth of bitterness, in the seeming hopelessness of any solution short of wholesale slaughter, there is no parallel to...
New Delhi will not consider independence for the Nagas, even though it has held desultory discussions with the rebels. "Nagaland has more autonomy than any other state," says an Indian official. "They have so much freedom that they don't know what to do with it." Government policy has...
A leading victim of that purge was ex-Premier Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, a retired major general and a Baathist from the movement's romantic early days. Though Al-Bakr retired to his Baghdad home, he constantly plotted against the Arefs. One abortive but memorable 1964 attempt involved six...
Because pictures of that sort are hardly ever available, China-watchers have usually regarded long, itemized reports of destruction with some skepticism and merely talked about "widespread violence." Armed with new proof of terror and destruction, they have seriously started re-examining whether, in their efforts to report the situation...
Among other absurdities, this western has pretty cloud effects, photographed through such dense filters that it is hard to tell whether the scene is day or night. The tired bloodshed of the plot about gringos and greasers-as the script tastefully refers to Texans and Mexicans-is a vehicle for...