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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like policemen in almost every U.S. city, the police of Rio de Janeiro are convinced that their country's legal system makes it difficult and sometimes impossible to convict criminals. Furthermore, there is no capital punishment, and no matter how serious the offense, a convict never serves more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Enforcement: The Death Squads of Rio | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

Red Rose. In official statements, Rio police have frequently and vociferously denied that they have anything to do with the killings; they claim that warring gangs are to blame. Last week, however, a TIME correspondent reported that several lower-and middle-echelon police officers have admitted to him that death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Enforcement: The Death Squads of Rio | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

If the kidnaping goes unnoticed, the victim is taken to an isolated spot, beaten or tortured, and then killed by a salvo of bullets fired by all the assembled cops. A coup de grace is finally administered above the ear, and often a piece of paper is left by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Enforcement: The Death Squads of Rio | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

Shortly afterward a man known as "Red Rose" will call police reporters and tell them where the body can be found. (Rose was nicknamed after telling one reporter that he got "an almost sexual pleasure from seeing a .45 bullet in a riddled body, blood bursting from the wound like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Enforcement: The Death Squads of Rio | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

The original University Hall action did not backfire precisely because the long debate on ROTC that had been going on all year had effectively created latent support for the SDS position, which very quickly became active support once the cops had been and gone. The long period of fruitless knocking...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: There's No Point Fighting to Lose | 4/23/1969 | See Source »

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