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DIED. Ivan Tors, 66, king of the not-so-wild beasts as producer of wholesome outdoor adventure films and TV series such as Flipper, Gentle Ben, Daktari and Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion and longtime crusader for conservation of wildlife; of a heart attack; in Mato Grosso state, Brazil, where he was scouting locations for a new television series. A 1939 immigrant from Hungary, Tors eventually broke into TV and movies by producing science fiction films and 156 episodes of Sea Hunt (1957-61). During the '60s, with profits from his productions, he co-founded and ran Africa, U.S.A...
...rural Ribeirao Bonito in the Mato Grosso on Oct. 11, another Brazilian bishop went to the police station with Jesuit Father Joao Bosco Penido Burnier to investigate the torture of two women prisoners. After a nasty argument a policeman shot the priest to death before the bishop's eyes...
FUNAI has tried to pacify the Indians by moving them to new lands away from the construction, but the tribes' delicate social fabrics have often not survived. Last year, for example, the Kranhacarore Indians of Mato Grosso state were moved to a plot of land away from their ancestral area but still only a few miles from the new road. Within ten months, Indian men were begging on the construction sites. Eventually, the government had to transfer the demoralized Kranhacarore away from the construction sites to Mato Grosso's 13,750 sq.mi. Xingu National Park...
...Indians that seemed unfit for slavery. When the Indians, who had no concept of regular work, proved uneconomical, black Africans were imported. Indian, white and black blood blended into mulatto culture, which continued to prey on the tribal Indian. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries in the Mato Grosso, private armies of bandeirantes pillaged for gold, diamonds and slaves. Thousands of Indians who were not killed by gun died because they lacked the antibodies to ward off their invaders' most common illnesses. The Indians retaliated sporadically, piercing their persecutors with long arrows, eating their flesh and occasionally shrinking their...