Word: coimbra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Portugal now has is a government more to the right of center than any other since the revolution. Mota Pinto, 42, a brilliant former law professor at Coimbra University, intends to bring to Portugal what he calls reformism, which he defines as the gradual, realistic search for social and economic improvement. It is, he says, "a prospect, a criterion, a framework...
...loyalist commandos who died in putting down the rebellion-Lieut. Jorge de Oliveira Coimbra and Corporal Joaquim dos Santos Pires-were given heroes' funerals after their bodies lay in state at a Lisbon church. Coimbra was buried in Oporto, and tens of thousands lined the roads from the capital to pay their respects...
Nazca ceramic pot seems to represent a hot-air bag. The researchers also found a significant clue in documents at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. These papers revealed that in 1709 a Brazilian-born Jesuit missionary named Bartholomeu de Gusmao went to Lisbon and demonstrated (74 years before France's Montgolfier brothers flew their balloon over Paris) a model of a balloon believed to have been used by the Indians. Filled with smoke and buoyed by hot air from glowing coals in a clay pot, the replica rose from Gusmao's hand and floated toward the palace...
...spread like wildfire." The appreciative Communists staged a massive street demonstration in support of the M.F.A. But at midweek, Saraiva de Carvalho's forces cracked down not on Soares' Socialists but on the Maoist M.R.P.P. (Movement for the Reorganization of the Party of the Proletariat). In Lisbon, Coimbra and other cities, the police arrested more than 350 members of the M.R.P.P. Among the charges: spreading "false Maoist leftism," kidnaping, and beating and arresting several people during the previous week, including two American Marine guards from the U.S. embassy...
...rally in Lisbon's bullring. Scares declared pointedly, "We want to construct a socialist society in Portugal with respect for liberty, not copied after foreign models - neither Russian nor Swedish nor Chinese but Portuguese." And at another rally, in Coimbra, he told several thousand followers, "The people have a right to know if an authentic democracy is to be established; or is it to turn into a dictatorship...