Word: carneiro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Popular Democratic Party (P.D.P.), which is a member of the provisional coalition government along with the Socialists and the Communists, represented the "liberal" wing of the subservient National Assembly during the Caetano regime. Party Leader Francisco Sa Carneiro, 40, defends its participation in politics under the dictatorship as "a struggle from within." The P.D.P. espouses a Swedish-style "social democracy" and membership in the European Common Market...
...Each carneiro (tomb) in Rio's edifice will sell for $1,800, but tenancy is guaranteed in perpetuity. To comply with Rio law, 10% of the tombs will be rented at $80 for five years to those who can't afford to buy. Another 5%-all on the top floor amid the ventilating machinery-will go free to the poor. Silva e Souza himself hasn't yet purchased his own carneiro. "I'm kind of hoping," he says wistfully, "that they'll give me one free...