Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China's National Day, when Mao and all other Red bigwigs would be standing on a reviewing stand before Peking's Heavenly Peace Gate, the plotters had intended to blow them all to kingdom come with a trench mortar. Eight men were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Yihsien in Hopei province-life imprisonment; four foreign-born old China...
Actually, young Cocozza lived in a fairly pleasant working-class neighborhood, where his parents, Antonio and Maria Cocozza, had a six-room house and brought up their only child with pampering indulgence. The elder Cocozza, a decorated World War I combat veteran on a total disability pension, is a semi-invalid; his wife worked as a seamstress in the Army quartermaster depot. Freddy, as everyone called their son, was a spoiled, reckless kid: one of his teachers still remembers him with a shudder as "one of the biggest bums that ever came into the public-school system...
...April, after the death of 81-year-old President Antonio Carmona (he had held the office since 1926), Portugal's National Assembly quietly amended the constitution to give the council of state (composed of top government leaders) a veto over the "fitness for office" of any election candidate. This week Portugal held her first election under the new law to choose a successor to President Carmona. For the party in power, the law worked just fine...
...second was Admiral Manuel Carlos Meireles, who, though a right-winger, nevertheless spoke out in opposition to Dictator Antonio Salazar's one-man rule, demanded restoration of civil liberties, and end to graft. After assuring anti-Salazar factions that he would not quit the good fight, he withdrew his candidacy three days before election Sunday, and out went Meireles...
...years. There seem to be three reasons: 1) Franco wants to establish better relations with the democratic world; 2) the Spanish people are increasingly restless under the Franco regime (TIME, March 19); 3) Spanish businessmen have long smarted under the rule of Minister of Industry and Commerce Juan Antonio Suances, who enforces a torpid, controlled economy in Spain. Rumored to go in the shakeup: Minister Suances...