Word: holocaust
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...mayor and his white supporters ended in a shootout between police and black militants during his first year in office. Ten people, including three policemen, were killed during the gun fight, and Stokes' decision to remove white policemen from the black neighborhood -credited by some with averting a holocaust, criticized by others as giving in to militants-split the city along racial lines. Months later it was discovered that $10,000 of "Cleveland: Now!" funds had gone to a militant group, and part of the funds had been used to purchase guns for the bloody shootout...
...note of jaunty irony, even whimsy, as the titles of his adventures show: Crow Tyrannosaurus, Crow Improvises, Crow's Last Stand. Crow is a sort of cosmic Kilroy. Alternately a witness, a demon and a victim, he is in on everything from the creation to the ultimate nuclear holocaust. At various times he is minced, dismembered, rendered cataleptic, but always he bobs back. In his graceless, ignoble way, he is the lowest common denominator of the universal forces that obsess Hughes...
...just been duped into a disaster," Wicker said. "There is something deeply wrong in our country and it is not merely the war in Vietnam. The war is the sickest fruit, but it is not all." Cheers. And raising the Nazi comparison, Wicker said, "We are spreading the holocaust in Indochina. Twenty-five years ago, I went to Auschwitz. There will never be in Indochina a glass case of the eyeglasses of those who have been butchered. We are incinerating them without taking the booty." Wicker's plea for the redemption of the nation's soul drew loud applause...
...spreading the holocaust in Indochina," he continued, saying that the difference between the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz, which he recently visited, and the American effort in Asia is that "We are incinerating people without taking the booty." He advocated more teach-ins, pressure on politicians, and even withholding of taxes to force an end to American involvement...
...were being transported, they said, over the route that had long since become a kind of guerrillas' Appian Way in Southeast Asia: the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The U.S. has been interdicting the trail since 1964, and last week completed its 122nd consecutive day of intensive bombing. The holocaust has frequently slowed down the Communists but seems incapable of stopping them...