Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About as welcome as the Yankee militia, Attorney General Robert Kennedy last week invaded the Deep South. Ignoring race-baiting pickets, he conferred with Alabama's Segregationist Governor George Wallace (a draw), spoke to law students at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, talked to Justice Department lawyers in the field about ways to speed up Negro voting registration in the South...
...Militia & Army. Duvalier has reason to worry. Haiti's per capita income is about $70 a year, one of the lowest in the hemisphere; unemployment averages 60%, illiteracy runs 90%, and life expectancy is only 32.6 years. When he campaigned for the presidency in 1957, Duvalier, a onetime backwoods physician who ministered to the poor, promised to change everything. Instead, he slapped on stiff new taxes and tolls, siphoned off graft to his cronies. To hold down the opposition, Duvalier set up a plainclothes gestapo of 5,000 men, called Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen, and in 1960 added...
...techniques of the old masters to the social misery of the anarchic Weimar Republic. With Hitler's rise, Dix was ousted from his professorship in art at the Academy of Art in Dresden, forbidden to paint, finally pressed into the potbellied Volks-sturm, a sort of last-ditch militia. He was captured by the French while snoozing in the sun one spring afternoon...
...story is based on actual fact and told by a real historical figure, Major Edward Wynkoop, a cavalryman who in 1864 negotiated peace with the Cheyennes. A militia troop headed by a bloodthirsty colonel marched into Wynkoop's area. They came upon an unsuspecting, unarmed and officially surrendered Cheyenne village at Sand Creek, Colo. In a hideous five-hour orgy, they massacred nearly everybody. Feeling that he must make amends for his unintentional betrayal. Wynkoop resigned his commission and became an Indian agent. But the Indians. of course, were doomed to further betrayal by other white...
...claimed, "I saw tanks crush women and children," and reported the "physical annihilation of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Iraqi democrats and patriots.'' The Pravda man went looking for Aziz Sharif, a 1962 Lenin Peace prizewinner at the office of the Peace Partisans League (a euphemism for Red militia). A soldier on guard at the office told him. "That dog has long since been jailed.'' The Soviet Red Cross even appealed to the International Red Cross to help protect Communists, whom it preferred to call ''the democratic patriots victimized by bloody persecution in Iraq...