Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treasures of the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul [June 23]. However, your reflections on the Turks as brutal conquerors are somewhat onesided. The damage wrought in Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 was, in the light of those times, very slight. Contrast this with the incredible rape, vandalism and slaughter that accompanied the Christian armies of the Fourth Crusade when they sacked Constantinople in 1204. Suleiman I, as well as many others of his dynasty, looks like an angel when compared with many of his "civilized" Christian contemporaries in Europe...
...sight of a spear fisherman on the prowl in mask, wet suit, fins and Aqua-Lung is enough to convince most casual observers that the underwater sportsman is equipped to take unfair advantage of his peaceful prey. But U.S. Navy Mineman Third Class Scotty Slaughter, 24, is a skindiver with a difference. He hunts for danger: any size, shape or variety of shark. It seems unfair to Scotty that spearmen anxious to skewer a meal should be bothered by a fish with the nasty habit of fighting back. So the blond, blue-eyed waterbug from Clearwater, Fla., has embarked...
...bait drift down-current; soon he had five sharks gliding gracefully around him. A 7-ft. dusky shark broke slowly away from his companions and hovered near the skindiver. Suddenly, maddened by the scent of ground ray, the shark flicked his powerful tail and bore down on Slaughter, jaws agape. The shark killer grasped his powerhead's shaft and drove the weapon against the onrushing shark's head, shattering its brain...
...Historian Sead-dedin wrote of the capture of Constantinople by Mohammed in 1453: "Having received permission to loot, the soldiers thronged into the city with joyous hearts, and there, seizing the possessors and their families, they made the wretched unbelievers weep. They acted in accordance with the precept, 'slaughter their aged and capture their youth...
Four days of feverish negotiation produced a compromise resolution calling on the Portuguese but not the Angolans to stop the slaughter, but threatening no sanctions against the Portuguese. It passed 9-0, Britain and France abstaining, while the U.S. voted aye with the Russians. Said one U.S. official: "It was our vote on the first Angola resolution that convinced these Afro-Asians that we meant what we preached about colonialism. We had to go along...