Word: americo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Refuge. Unfortunately, the Amazon Basin is the last refuge for tribes like the Waimiri and Atroari. "The Indians resent the speed and aggressiveness with which the road is being built," says João Americo Peret, a Brazilian Indian expert. "But since they can't confront the road-building machines, they take it out on the FUNAI people...
Caetano, who was reported to have some sympathy with Spinola's view that Portugal cannot win a military victory over the insurgents, fired the generals under pressure from conservative officers and Portuguese president Americo Thomaz...
...mansion today, William Richard Tolbert Jr., 59, has plans for reform, and he seems to mean business. Very few Liberians expected anything like that. Tolbert had served 19 silent and subservient years as Vice President under "Uncle Shad." He also came from the same small elite of "Americo-Liberians" who have ruled the country pretty much in their own interests for more than a century. (There are 45,000 Americo-Liberians in a population of 1,500,000, and they hold virtually all the nation's wealth...
...Tubman made some substantial contributions to Africa's oldest independent black state. His rule was characterized by both stability and a medicum of physical progress. By means of education and arm-twisting, Tubman did all he could to wipe out the differences between native tribesmen and the elitist Americo-Liberians (descendants of Liberia's freed-slave founders...