Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel the sale of less than one percent of Harvard's stock, presumably an example of "constructive engagement," does not represent any real change in Harvard's substantial economic involvement in that country. The daily repression and slaughter of Black people in South Africa makes a mockery of the argument that slow progress is being achieved...
...save the dream and the power. It was all of Homer and Shakespeare come to the New World. It was the American discovery of tragedy, and of modern death, proceeding from the jaunty, clumsy toy soldiering of First Bull Run to Sherman's scorched earth and Grant's trench slaughter, which were a moral preview of the 20th century...
...autumn of 1913, and as the war clouds gather over Europe, a cross section of the English nobility gathers at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a weekend's shoot. The symbolic correlation between the mass destruction of feathered innocents and the slaughter soon to ensue in France seems a little cruder onscreen than it did in Isabel Colegate's subtle novel of manners, as do the human dramas played out around the mansion. But as Sir Randolph, the late James Mason, whose last performance this was, is superb in his distracted eccentricity, especially in a scene with John Gielgud...
...according to the official count. Other estimates put the toll as high as 1,000. The U.S., say Washington officials, approved the sending of only one of the divisions that brutally recaptured the city. Nonetheless, some critics of the Chun government still hold the U.S. partly accountable for the slaughter. To many of Chun's opponents, Kwangju has become a symbol of the U.S.-supported regime's determination to rule by force, abolishing political parties and cracking down on enemies in every area. The government has explicitly prohibited newspapers from mentioning the 1980 uprising. Last week's student protest came...
...provoke retaliation. It did not take long. In the bloodiest strike, assailants boarded a ferry off the northern coast of Sri Lanka, near Jaffna, and hacked 39 Tamils to death with axes, swords and knives. The Sri Lankan navy has denied accusations that it was involved in the slaughter; the same day, police surprised Tamil rebels hiding in a cave in the Eastern province and killed 20 guerrillas...