Word: bloodshedding
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Folsom, for all its notoriety, is depressingly typical and illustrates the turmoil faced by penitentiaries and local jails across the U.S. In April a Justice Department study reported prison overcrowding was worse than ever, with 463,866 men and women jammed into facilities that are filled to twice their capacity...
By then it was just after noon, the deadline set by the police for the completion of the funeral. Lieut. Colonel Gert Nel, the police commandant, warned the crowd over a loudspeaker, "You are acting against the law. You must disperse. When the convoy starts moving you must all be...
In another part of the world, it would be called tribal warfare. In Northern Ireland, the shootings and the bombings that have taken more than 2,500 lives over the past 17 years are more primly referred to as "the troubles." The spasms of killing have followed the ebb and...
To the Editors: I cannot remember a time when there was so much bloodshed from attacks by terrorists and assassins [NATION, July 1]. Reading about all the "just causes" reminded me of the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, who said he was willing to die for his cause but believed there...
The bishop's warning that the images of bloodshed would be used against the black protesters was soon borne out. In the face of the international furor over the government's harsh crackdown, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha (no kin to President Botha), sounding a theme that would be invoked...