Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial for writing an outspoken feminist tract. The authors, known as "the three Marias," had been arrested by the old regime and accused of "outraging public morals" and "abusing the freedom of the press" (TIME, July 23). In clearing them, Judge Artur Lopes Cardoso urged Maria Velho da Costa, Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Teresa Horta to continue writing "works of art." And last week, for the first time, Portuguese movie theaters were showing The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin's 1940 spoof on Nazism, and the 1925 Soviet silent-film classic Potemkin...
...think I will be doing a service by speaking to the rebels." Though he may not have actually helped plan the coup,Spínola was obviously prepared to act as its leader once it succeeded. Both Spínola and his boss. Army Chief of Staff General Francisco Costa Gomez, were kicked out in March because of their antiwar views on the African conflict...
...cartel, named Union de Paises Exportadores del Banano (Union of Banana Exporting Countries), was formed by Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. It proposes to slap a $1 export tax on every 40-lb. box of bananas leaving Latin America, 50 times the present 20 tax paid by major exporters. In the U.S., which is the world's top banana in imports of the yellow fruit, the tax boost could raise retail prices from the present 16%0 per Ib. to as much as 190. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
...news that we've got is very sparse and we haven't heard anything officially yet, just what we've read in the newspapers," Maurino Costa, another active member of COPA, said yesterday, "so I don't think COPA can say anything...
...Costa added, "I think it's something everyone has been waiting for a long time to hear and I think the change is for the better--we're sure the change is for the better...