Word: dos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secretaries called "The Rape of the Sabine Women," and later became an associate editor of the more staid New Republic. By day, he reviewed the best of his contemporaries. After hours, he saw them not quite at their best: E.E. Cummings lying in a bathtub maliciously imitating John Dos Passes' speech impediment; Dorothy Parker surrounded by "the vulgarity of her too much perfume." Even Wilson's Princeton friend Scott Fitzgerald was a "sloppy boor" who got drunk and knocked people unconscious in the lavatory...
Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves had already left for Belgium to attend the NATO meeting and talk with President Ford. Upon his arrival in Brussels, he said that he had gone there to tell the truth about matters in Portugal. Though he did not say so, the truth was that matters were still confused but that the prospects for the future of Portuguese democracy remained bleak...
...that permits the regime to jail people for up to eight years for the vague crime of "sabotaging decolonization." There is uncertainty over the policies that will be followed by Frelimo's top men-notably Samora Machel, 42, the Peking-oriented commander in chief, and his deputy, Marcelino dos Santos, 44, who is said to lean toward Moscow...
...that is to write a new constitution, but its terms were sharply circumscribed. The major parties bowed to the M.F.A.'s demand that the military oversee operations of the government for the next three to five years. It was made plain that the present Cabinet of Premier Vasco dos Santos Goncalves would not be substantially changed, no matter what the electoral outcome. In it, the Socialists, Popular Democrats and Communists each have two portfolios, and the Democratic Movement one. Real power will remain with the 28-member Revolutionary Council, composed of President Francisco da Costa Gomes, Premier Goncalves...
PRIME MINISTER VASCO DOS SANTOS GONCALVES, 54, was an army engineer under the old regime, when ins passion for social reform induced inm to help organize the disaffected officers of the Armed Forces Movement. He became the cinef arcintect of the April revolution and remains its most fervent proponent. Probably the hardest-working man in the government (friends call inm "the man who never sleeps") and studiously intellectual, he is dedicated to revamping the economic and social structure of ins country. Goncalves talked at ins official residence on the grounds of Sāo Bento Palace, the large winte villa...