Word: slaughter
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Eighteen years after the British had destroyed the Zulu nation, they crushed Benin. Objecting to the sale of slaves and human sacrifice, a consul general set out in 1897 with eight men to halt the annual ritual of slaughter; they were massacred. In retaliation, a battalion of British soldiers, 1,200 strong, destroyed Benin a month later and brought out as booty 1,000 bronze plaques, which were sold off in London to benefit dis abled veterans. It was the first major appearance of Africana in Europe...
...filming in Scotland, and the Dutch Grand Prix. This frantic life has its little compensations. Fortune, for one: his income from racing this year will top $230,000, and Edington Mains is busily in the black too, producing barley for Scotch-whisky distillers, sheep for wool, and cattle for slaughter. He has his Scottish sheep dog, Sweep, who pines for him while he is away-and his flaxen-haired girl friend, Sally Stokes, who travels with him and tends a stop watch in the pits...
...pumps-a motel, restaurant, barber shop, clothing store and free shower-&-steam-rooms. In North Lima, Ohio, an American Oil truck stop includes feeding facilities for traveling cattle and a rabbi to supervise shipments of kosher meat, which must be watered down every 72 hours between the slaughter and its delivery...
Changed Color. Not even unconquered tribes dared to oppose a man whose executioners would cut open 100 pregnant women to satisfy their ruler's transient interest in embryology, whose fierce regiments would slaughter each other unless quartered in widely separated kraals. Toward the white man, however, Shaka assumed a friendly mien. The first British pioneers to set foot in Zululand met with a truly stunning cordiality. Executions were held in their honor. Shaka signed peace pacts with his guests, ceded them his kingdom (he had no intention of delivering), asked little more in return than a supply of Rowland...
...political background is murky. He is quarrelsome, opportunistic, a plotter who, in the words of one U.S. official, "has the potential of becoming another Fidel Castro." His father, Lieut. General Fausto Caamaño, was boss of Trujillo's secret police, took a leading part in the 1937 slaughter of 15,000 Haitian squatters. Young Caamaño joined the navy in 1950, proved so contentious that he was bucked to the marines, next to the police, finally to the army. He helped in the 1963 coup that exiled Bosch, and plotted against his successor...