Word: pogrom
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...plays into the hands of Serbs who want to create as many refugees as possible -- and who perhaps mean to pursue the tactic to "cleanse" other Serb-minority territory closer to Hungary, Albania, Greece and Turkey. Faced with Western inaction, Turkey and Iran are watching the nearby anti-Muslim pogrom more and more anxiously...
...tapes show that long before he was under siege by the Watergate investigators, he was under siege by his own demons. His re-election campaign belied its official slogan -- "Bring Us Together" -- by beginning with a pogrom. "I want there to be no holdovers left. The whole goddam bunch go out . . . and if ((George Shultz)) doesn't do it, he's out as ((Treasury)) Secretary." Nixon returns to his purge later: "You're out, you're out, you're finished, you're done, done, finished. Knocked the hell out of there." And these are his own people...
Everything you ought to want to know about Woody Allen you could find in the Playbill for his 1969 Broadway comedy, Play It Again, Sam: "Woody Allen is the son of a Latvian prince. He came to the United States as the result of a pogrom at which he was the only one to show up . . . He is the father of two children, although he denies...
...Tadzhik Telegraph Agency, the official news source of the republic, the Russian deputy editor says only 39 Armenians actually arrived in Dushanbe after the January pogrom in Baku, and every one of them stayed with either friends or relatives. The rumor of the 2,500 was never even remotely true, he claims. Elsewhere we are told that Tadzhik militants methodically phoned threats to every single family in the phone listings whose name sounded Armenian. "They called my son," says a middle-age Russian woman whose husband, now dead, was Armenian, "and they said, 'You are Armenians; you had better leave...
...Just as Armenians fled from Azerbaijani pogroms the week before, some 15,000 dependents of the military and KGB divisions stationed in the republic were evacuated. "We could hear shooting in the city," Nadezhda Appakov, an officer's wife, told TASS. "We feared for our children most of all, because those militants stop at nothing." The newspaper Trud reported that a pogrom had begun against the remaining 85,000 ethnic Russians in the republic, but Popular Front officials offered assurances that the Russians would not be attacked by Azerbaijani nationalists. Moscow agreed to hold off on further evacuations...