Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel on the plan. Grumbled a senior White House adviser: "A cynical person might think that the Israelis went into West Beirut to provoke us into some land of sanction and thus to discredit our peace plan inside Israel. But of course we don't believe that." The slaughter in the Beirut camps could, however, thwart Begin's stalling strategy and force him to pay more heed to the proposals...
...Lebanon and its guerrilla fighters are now dispersed throughout the Arab world, the P.L.O. has emerged with its political prestige still strong, as was illustrated last week by the Pope's agreement to meet Arafat. Also the organization is bound to win considerable sympathy after the refugee slaughter...
...with the campaign in Lebanon, Begin began to push his luck. Now, indirect involvement in the slaughter of Palestinians may suffice to topple the government. Indeed, Begin's Energy Minister Yitzhak Berman has already handed in his resignation. Other members of the cabinet--including Deputy Foreign Minister Yehuda Ben-Meir and Education Minister Zvulun Hammer--are reportedly thinking of quitting. And in Parliament, the Prime Minister's shaky coalition would have much trouble surviving a no-confidence vote. So Begin...
...slaughter on the Rue des Roisiers was but one of the recent rash of terrorist attacks that have plagued France, and most particularly its Jews. With the war raging in Lebanon and the local Jewish community furious at what it perceives to be pro-PLO posturing by the government and the French press disparaging Israel, tempers were running short...
Prisons did not work out as planned. Right now in most states there are individual prisons, and whole prison systems, that courts have condemned. Insurrections and slaughter shock everyone and surprise nobody. There was no bona fide riot among San Quentin's 2,900 inmates last year, yet seven prisoners were murdered, and at least 54 others were stabbed, clubbed or beaten, all in the normal course of prison life...