Word: antonios
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...urging of Mexico, Argentina and Peru, the Foreign Ministers in Washington last week reached a "consensus" that Cuba should be invited to their gathering next March in Buenos Aires. Several countries, including Chile, opposed the invitation, but even such strongly anti-Communist representatives as Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio Azeredo da Silveira voiced no objection. Mexico's Foreign Minister Emilio O. Rabasa announced that Castro has already agreed in principle to such a meeting...
...bulk of the milk industry's contributions to Nixon came from AMPI which is based in San Antonio. Besides acting as a wholesaler, the cooperative operates a political arm called the Committee for Thorough Agricultural Political Education. It contributes to politicians' campaigns and lobbies in Washington and state capitals for measures helpful to AMPI members. The cooperative has assets of $170 million and represents 40,000 big and small milk producers in 22 states, mostly in the Midwest...
...military effort to put down insurrection movements in the three African territories of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau. Now an influential Portuguese leader has openly questioned the government's sacrosanct policy that the overseas provinces must be preserved at all cost. Ironically, this dovish challenge comes from General Antonio de Spinola, a hero of the African wars. Meanwhile, hawkish devotion to the status quo prevails in the civilian-dominated National Assembly...
...appeared in Lisbon. Spinola's iconoclastic views were well known before it was published and were widely shared by many of his fellow officers in the armed forces. He also reportedly had the ear of moderate Premier Marcello Caetano, who had succeeded to power after illness forced Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's resignation...
Because the Portuguese government tolerates less dissent than its counterparts elsewhere, it took a much-decorated military hero, General Antonio de Spinola, for four years commander of the colonial troops in Guinea-Bissau, to start the process by writing a book suggesting a Portuguese-African federation. Fearful of even such mild suggestions, Caetano's government cashiered Spinola and suppressed a first wave of sympathetic military revolts. But they were just a first wave. True peace won't come to Portugal till its people stop their government's colonizing in Africa and replace their government with one they control...