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    amalgamated Boston Fruit with some smaller firms, cleared and drained a million

    acres of Central American land, and started the economic behemoth Latin

    Americans would soon love to hate.  (Tom Buckley, Violent Neighbors: El Salvador,

    Central America and the United States, pp. 226-7.)

    92.  For an effort to explain the historical origins of Latin America's culture of

    violence, see Lawrence E. Harrison, Underdevelopment is a State of Mind: the

    Latin American Case, The Center for International Affairs, Harvard University,

    Madison Books, Lanham, MD, 1988.

    93.  Ken C. Kotecha with Robert W. Adams, The Corruption of Power: African

    Politics, University Press of America, 1981.

    94.  For a brilliantly detailed picture of modern Africa, its violence and its political

    and economic turmoil, see David Lamb, The Africans: Encounters from the Sudan

    to the Cape.

    95.  "Huge Death Toll Feared In Burundi," New York Times, November 28, 1993, p.

    7.

    96.  Mooney's statement appeared in a report on the Ghost Dance Movement, a

    sect that briefly defied the Indian tradition of violence and rejected war.  (James

    Mooney,  The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, [originally

    published as part of the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to

    the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-93], University of Chicago Press,

    Chicago, 1965, p. 25.)  Thomas Jefferson wrote a spirited defense of Indians based

    on his own first-hand and extremely methodical observations.  (Among Jefferson's

    many accomplishments was a detailed analysis of the structural relationships

    between Indian languages.)  One of the criticisms Jefferson addressed was the

    charge that Indians "have no ardor for their females."  Here was the founding

    father's reply:  "It's true they [Indians] do not indulge those excesses, nor discover

    that fondness which is customary in Europe; but this is not owing to a defect in

    nature but to manners.  Their soul is wholly bent upon war."  (From Thomas

    Jefferson's Notes On Virginia, quoted in Daniel J. Boorstin, Hidden History, p. 117.)

    More recently, anthropologists studying the Kwakiutl Indians of the Pacific

    Northwest have discovered that these coast-dwellers engaged in sophisticated

    wars designed to exterminate or enslave rival clans.  Only the coming of the white

    man forced them to stop. (Allen W. Johnson & Timothy Earle, The Evolution of

    Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, p. 164.)  For a disturbing

    description of the joy Plains Indians took in killing, see Ruth Benedict, Patterns of

    Culture, p. 106.

    97.  William James, Will, Emotion Instinct and Life's Ideals, A Halvorson Dixit

    Recording, Books On Tape, Newport Beach, California.

    98.  Judith Hooper and Dick Teresi, "Sex and Violence," Penthouse, February,

    1987, p. 42.  The classic anecdotal example of this principle is Margaret Mead's

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