Word: holocaust
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...Yevgeni Chazov, the Soviet Union's deputy minister of health and an official physician to President Leonid Brezhnev. Moreover, Chazov's view is at variance with some statements by Soviet officials implying that since fewer Soviet citizens are likely to die in an atomic holocaust than Americans, the U.S.S.R. would therefore...
...Hope is not a well-written book. Even analyzing it for content, it has far too many gaping holes to pretend to serve as a definitive history of the events leading up to the Cambodian holocaust. Yet, what little new information Sihanouk does provide is so damaging to Shawcross' positions that one has to wonder if any of his conclusions will stand up under the light of serious scrutiny...
...merely allowing for the likelihood that Cambodia lasted longer under Lon No1 than it would have under Sihanouk does not answer Shawcross' most forceful charge: that the Khmer rouge created the massive holocaust only because they had been "brutalized" by incessant American bombings and the actions of the U.S.-supplied Cambodian Army. This unsupported assertion has probably been the cause of more bad sentiment towards American involvement in Cambodia--and, indeed, anywhere else in the world--than any other aspect of American foreign policy in many years. But Shawcross' claim is almost completely false...
Speaking to a delegation from the Central Council of Jews in Germany, which represents the country's 30,000 Jews, he said "The innocent victims (of the Nazi holocaust) in Germany and in other countries...are tragic proof of where discrimination and disregard of human dignity can lead, especially when animated by perverse theories and ideas about the difference in value of the races...
...stood close together, two to each square foot of soil. Others gave dreams of the winter without oil, or the year that the Third World collectively decided it had suffered long enough at our expense and sent vanguard elements to wreak havoc. Many feared nothing more complicated than nuclear holocaust; and a few still thought that, after all, it might be the Communists. If the peddlers of survival gear are to be believed, people have of late begun to act on their fears, caching enormous stores of dehydrated food and Geiger counters and, especially, firearms...