Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russell Long, "they can just burn the whole place down, and we can just move the capital to some place where they enforce the law!" Other officials feared that the march might trigger a repetition of the riots that singed Washington and 167 other cities after King's murder, and the Pentagon hastily added more than five brigades-some 30,000 troops-to the stand-by force, now 45,000 men strong, available for riot-control duty...
...Murder & Loan Sharking. Behind the sudden concern was a 20-volume Brazilian government report that revealed the scope of the carnage, and even implicated Indian Service officials themselves. Working on their own or with local land speculators, officials were accused of systematically murdering or terrorizing Indians in order to force them off their land. Once a tribe vacated land, the property reverted to the government and could then be picked up cheaply. In only two years of service, the government claimed, former I.P.S. Director Luis Vinhas Neves (1964-66) committed 42 separate crimes against the Indians-including collusion in several...
...affair of their corruption; according to the government, they embezzled Service funds and tortured and enslaved dozens of Indians. Vinhas, Ribeiro, the five Buenos and 52 other persons-more than half of them members of the Service-have been formally charged with crimes ranging from embezzlement and collusion in murder to slavery and misappropriation of Indian property...
...Parana, where land prices are particularly high, the Guarani tribe has fallen from 5,000 members to 300 in the past ten years. There, the government says, farmers and Indian Service workers often sold Indians as slaves and tortured them for the sheer pleasure of it. The harassment and murder has become so widespread, in fact, that it is hard to find elders among today's few remaining tribes. The Indians just are not given time to grow...
...Harvard's trouble on behalf of the Indians, the College turned out only one Indian preacher. The single success, John Sassamon, attended Harvard for just one term in 1653 before he left to preach to the Wampanoags at Natick. (Sassamon is remembered less for his preaching than for his murder, which touched off King Philip...