Word: dona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Dona Maria Teresa de Barros Caetano, 64, wife of the Portuguese Premier; in Lisbon. Suffering from mental illness for the past twelve years, she lived so anonymously that most Portuguese did not even know her name...
...paralyzed. He was shielded from the news that Marcello Caetano had replaced him as Premier. Several times the figurehead President, Américo Thomaz, approached him with the firm intention of telling him the truth, but could never find the words. Occasionally his housekeeper of more than 40 years, Dona Maria de Jesus Caetano Freire, would try to persuade him to "resign" because of his health, but each time he would reply: "I cannot go. There is no one else." When Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal for 36 years, died at 81 last week from the effects...