Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnam. KENNEDY will cruise between 75 and 150 miles off the coast, and only the pilots will get to see the country. For the rest of the crew. Vietnam is just another port, with $56 extra a month as hazardous duty pay and stops on the way in Rio de Janiero and Tokyo, where the buys on cameras and women and dope and stereo equipment are really fantastic. And all of that is very good for forgetting about war and even, for awhile, about the Navy...
Those charges, brought by female prisoners in Rio de Janeiro, come from "Terror in Brazil," a 15,000-word dossier compiled by the American Committee for Information on Brazil. The document was endorsed by 34 concerned citizens, including Black Leader Ralph Abernathy and John Bennett, president of Union Theological Seminary. According to the dossier, Brazil's military regime has resorted to a whole catalogue of horrors in its effort to root out dissidents...
...into the courtyard of their jail, blindfolded, lined up against a wall, and asked if they had any last wishes. Only after they heard the metallic click of bullets being loaded into the rifles of a firing squad were they put into vehicles by laughing policemen and taken to Rio's international airport for the flight to Algiers...
...stripped naked and thrown into a cell with a man. "I had to remain locked up with him all night, bothered by his advances," she said. Chael Charles Schreier, a former medical student, was seized in a police raid on an underground hideout and interrogated by security police in Rio. Three days later, his body was returned to his family. The medical certificate attributed his death to severe abdominal blows...
...chair, the victim is subjected to electric shocks in graduated amounts, usually until he confesses or-passes out. Another technique is "the telephone," in which the torturer continuously slaps the prisoner on the ear with a cupped hand, often rupturing the eardrum. A failed dental student, now a Rio policeman, has refined still another technique. The "mad dentist," as he is known, straps a prisoner into his dentist's chair, drills until he hits a nerve and keeps probing until the victim agrees to cooperate. Then he fills the cavity, leaving no outward evidence...