Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important case under investigation by the grand jury (22 whites, one Negro) was the murder of three young civil rights workers: New Yorkers Michael Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, and Meridian, Miss., Negro James Chaney, 21. The three disappeared on June 21 after Cecil Price arrested them near Philadelphia on a charge of speeding. Six weeks later their bodies were dug up from a nearby farmer's dam; all had been shot to death...
...grand jury could not indict anyone for murder, which is a state, not a federal, crime. But the jury could look into violations of the victims' civil rights under federal laws. In secret sessions over two weeks, the jurors summoned some 125 witnesses-including FBI men, Philadelphia Negroes, a bootlegger, a missionary Baptist preacher, Sheriff Rainey and a smirking Cecil Price, who appeared to testify with a card on his coat proclaiming, "Regardless of what you have heard or seen about me, I'm innocent...
Then, ten years later, his name came up in testimony at the Ulm mass-murder trial, and West German investigators quietly began a closer look at his past. On a wintry day in January 1962, two plainclothesmen knocked on the door of Wolff's lakeside Munich villa and hauled him, protesting, off to jail. The charge: "Aiding and abetting murder in at least 300,000 instances...
...Roxas Boulevard. In the back streets, men smoking fat, green cigars bet on cockfights and hard-fought jai alai matches. One church has "Ave Maria" picked out in electric lights above the door. Manila's eleven daily newspapers (six in English) crackle with scare headlines reporting the latest murders, rapes and pirate raids (which still occur at a rate of one a week, conducted by Moros in motorized sailboats armed with modern weapons). In the back pages of the papers dwell Buck Rogers, Peanuts and the pistol ads. More than 25,000 weapons were left in the islands after...
...week's end the Brazilian police arrested two men and were searching for a third, who is the prime murder suspect. No one in Syria was surprised to learn that the man wanted is a young Druze tribesman and a member of the Ghazali clan named Nawaf Abu Ghazali. He also had emigrated to Brazil and waited a decade to avenge the savage reprisals against his people almost 10,000 miles away in the Djebel Druze...