Word: slaughter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gradual strangulation or an immediate slaughter, but it will be murder none the less. The Crimson may yet have a long way to go before at can think of beating Yale, but last week's 55-39 victory over Springfield was not an indication of this year's true potential...
...there were at least 100 workers, and only one girl who could take dictation." At first there was talk of heads rolling, but Bobby strategically retreated: there was not time to build a new headquarters staff, and a lot of influential Democrats would have been offended by a wholesale slaughter. Instead. Bob increased his forces. Today the National Committee has overflowed into dozens of offices in five Washington buildings, and the scene at headquarters is one of organized confusion, with mimeograph machines and tables choking the corridors and the offices jammed to their transoms with employees. "Everybody's working...
...near bankruptcy and total administrative collapse. ''Some [army] units have not got any pay for two months, and they have no food, with the result that they disobey orders and loot from the civilian population." The Congolese army in Kasai province was running wild, "engaged in slaughter not only of combatants but also of defenseless civilians." Some victims "were deliberately killed simply on the ground that they were Balubas," Hammarskjold said. "Should it be supposed that the duty of the United Nations to observe strict neutrality . . . means that the United Nations cannot take action in such cases...
...Place of Slaughter. But Whitehead's get-tough policy did not silence Salisbury's 175,000 Africans. From the black ghetto of Highfield, 5,000 Africans marched on the police station demanding that they be arrested as were the N.D.P. leaders. Next day a mass strike crippled Salisbury as 20,000 Africans descended on Whitehead's office in the city center. When the mob refused to disperse, the police lobbed tear-gas shells into their midst, scattering them in all directions...
...uneasy quiet returned to Salisbury. But in Bulawayo, which means Place of Slaughter, trouble still seethed. Government officials banned an N.D.P. meeting. Next day nearly three-quarters of the labor force went out on strike in protest and gangs of hooligans beat up Africans who refused to lay down their tools. In a drunken orgy of looting and burning, African thugs smashed into banks, post offices and welfare buildings, attacked even African-owned beerhalls and shops...