Word: slaughter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before another Lam is led to slaughter, it might be wise for Bob Hope to try another production firm. This-the 52nd film he has starred in-was churned out by Hope Enterprises, a family affair. For comedians, it's sometimes better to do business with strangers...
...murder defendants has ever received a death sentence. The accused, sometime merchant seaman and ex-convict, seemed to have been crossed up only by the one event of July 13 that the killer had overlooked. By rolling under a bunk while the murderer led her roommates to the slaughter, Miss Amurao had escaped his attention while watching his movements...
...killer took 20 to 40 minutes between slayings, as he led his victims from the back upstairs bedroom to the street-front rooms where the slaughter took place. At one point, a neighbor-blonde Tammy Sioukoff, 20, another student nurse who lived near by-rang the doorbell, hoping to borrow a couple of slices of bread to make a sandwich for her boy friend; the killer kept the girls quiet by advising them: "Don't be afraid! I'm not going to kill you." Miss Sioukoff went away...
...which the predators are the continent's white and black citizens and the victim is Africa itself. Film Makers Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi (Mondo Cane) have assembled a grand guignol of atrocity scenes, strung together with a booming narration and a melodramatic score. Among them: the wanton slaughter of herds of hippopotamuses, zebras, elephants and other wildlife; the execution by a black and white firing squad of black Congolese rebels; mound of 54 amputated hands, the ghastly souvenir of Bahutu reprisals against their Watutsi neighbors...
India's problems did not withdraw, though, and Indira has plenty of them. The country faces an acute food short age that has reduced millions of people to near-starvation level. Hindu holy men are agitating for a nationwide ban on cow slaughter. Indian crowds continue to show a growing propensity toward violence and mayhem. The country's economy is stagnant under layers of bureaucratic government control. Be sides all that, Indira will be confronted with an unaccustomed problem: owing to her party's poor performance at the polls, she must not only face a powerful opposition...