Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Savage Reprisals. Paradoxically, it was Abboud's first experiment with democracy that led to his downfall. Since the days of the ancient Arab slave traders, the Sudan has been split into two inherently hostile ethnic and religious groups: the sophisticated, dominant Arabs of the Moslem north, 9,000,000 strong; and, south of the 12th parallel, some 4,000,000 backward Negro tribesmen without a political voice. Abboud met frequent black incursions with stern, often savage military reprisals that only fed the flames...
Playing on these suspicions, Keating charged that Kennedy, while Attorney General, had made a "deal" to sell off part of the Government-held General Aniline & Film Corp.'s assets to a Swiss holding company that was once run by Germany's I. G. Farben, a notorious exploiter of Jewish slave labor. Keating had proposed selling the assets-some $200 million worth-exclusively to private U.S. interests, but made no protest when the deal was announced...
Over the next few months, the police pieced together evidence of at least 35 murders (some said that the total exceeded 100), and a picture of a ruthless white-slave ring that had been trafficking in young girls for at least ten years. The girls, ranging in age from 14 to 25 and all from poor families, were lured by promises of jobs as maids in upper-class families. Then they were raped by a ring employee and hustled off to a training brothel in the farming town of San Francisco del Rincón. At least 2,000 girls...
Great Grandfather Was a Slave...
...Congolese press and politicians laid plans for a hero's welcome for Tshombe. They denounced Nasser, playing upon deep-seated black African memories of the Arabs as the continent's slave traders. Tshombe meanwhile was taken under guard back to the Cairo airport to fly to Athens and a weekend in Paris before going back home...