Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration and the damage it had wrought on America and the world, have shown similar reactions. Anyone who has passed by the White House in the past three years has undoubtedly witnessed a vigil of some sort on Pennsylvania Ave--one of those ragged collections of souls mourning the slaughter of their fellow men in some far-flung corner of the world. A man in Alabama made headlines last spring when he tried to set himself on fire to protest unemployment in America. Others have been more concerted in their protest, organizing massive marches on New York or Washington, circulating...
...20th century has been one of enormous tribal slaughter, much of it distant from the world's eyes. As many as 200,000 Tutsi and Hutu tribesmen massacred one another during tribal warfare in Burundi in the early 1970s, for example. Some 3,000 Bengalis were murdered in Assam, India, last February. More than 100,000 Iranians and Iraqis have been killed in their war, which is now three years old. And each slaughter enforces upon the survivors in the tribe the imperative to take revenge...
When the Federal Government launched a program last fall to gas chickens-more than 7 million so far-in an effort to contain an influenza virus in Pennsylvania, it said it had "depopulated" the birds. "We use that terrible word depopulation to avoid saying slaughter," explained a federal information officer, David Goodman...
...Airport. In Beirut itself, a car bomb exploded in a crowded street, killing 14 people. Nobody was apprehended, and as usual, the list of suspects was endless. Next day a terrorist bomb exploded on a crowded bus in Jerusalem, killing five Israelis and wounding 45 others. For this senseless slaughter, two warring branches of the Palestine Liberation Organization, including the mainstream group led by Chairman Yasser Arafat, claimed responsibility. A day later, Arafat's group admitted making the attack but said it had made a mistake and hit the wrong bus. The recantation came too late. Presumably in response...
...Slaughter at Elim church