Word: cabral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last September. In his place, they set up what they considered a reliably docile civilian triumvirate too weak to do any harm-or any good. But when the junta went through its inevitable first shake-up last December, out went one of its members and in stepped Donald Reid Cabral, 40, a Santo Domingo auto dealer and the frail (5 ft. 6 in., 132 Ibs.) but strong-willed son of a Scots banker. Since then, Reid has clearly become more equal than the others in the triumvirate. This week, as military men complained to Reid about still another member...
...years. Like the North American Indian before him, the Brazilian Indian's enemy is the white man-and the white man's ways. Throughout the country's vast and still largely untamed jungle, the Indian stands dangerously close to extinction. When Portuguese Sea Captain Pedro Cabral discovered Brazil in 1,500, the lush tropical land teemed with 3,000,000 Indians of some 2,500 tribes. Today its tribal Indian population is down to an estimated 78,000 and falling steadily every year...
Brazil's history is studded with examples of unspeakable cruelty to the dark-skinned natives who lived there uncounted centuries before Cabral. Early Portuguese colonizers enslaved natives by the thousands to work the sugar plantations, butchered whole tribes as a warning to others. Jesuit missionaries, serving as the Indians' first "protectors," instead became their oppressors by herding them into new settlements so that their lands could be more easily confiscated. Dreaded mame-luko* raiders-crossbreeds of Portuguese and native blood-disguised as priests, swept down on the missions to carry off their congregations, sometimes killing the Jesuit fathers...