Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cain, Mafia killings have a style all their own. They are the blood-feud eruptions of one of the nation's strangest and most powerful subcultures, and are carried out with an almost ritual quality. They are unlike fatal quarrels of husband and wife, random slaughter in delicatessen holdups and bar brawls, and the other killings that constitute the vast majority of murders in the U.S. Instead, the Mafia practices a drama of implacable tribal will: just as Clausewitz defined war as foreign policy by other means, La Cosa Nostra regards murder as an instrument of business-often conducted...
Protest over the Gulf issue began on February 24, when PALC and Afro sponsored a temporary mill-in at University Hall. The two groups charged that Gulf, through its investment in Portuguese colonies in Africa, "facilitates the daily slaughter of Africans" and that "Harvard is deeply implicated in this crime." Harvard owns 683,000 Gulf shares worth $21 million...
...offices of President Derek Bok in Massachusetts Gulf stock and make a public statement that it will not be involved in racist imperialist economic ventures in the future. Gulf Oil Company, with the blessing of the Portuguese and United States governments. NATO and Harvard University daily facilitates the slaughter of our African brothers, oppresses them and rapes the natural resources of their land. Harvard University, in its statement yesterday, morally wrong to hold stock in American companies, such as Gulf, that have operations in nations controlled by governments that engage in actions considered repressive or inhumane." We urge all people...
...groups have charged that Gulf--through its investment in Portuguese colonies in Africa--"facilitates the daily slaughter of Africans" and that "Harvard is deeply implicated in this crime...
While the death toll of Americans has subsided, the senseless slaughter of Indochinese continues. In its stubborn insistence in maintaining a strongly anti-communist government in Saigon, the Nixon Administration has leveled villages, wiped out entire crops and defoliated the Vietnamese countryside...