Word: estados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarter of a century since the war Spain's ruler has been the stocky, mustached Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Caudillo, Jefe del Estado, Prime Minister, Generalissimo of the Armed Forces, Regent of the Kingdom, and President of the Falange. Franco inaugurated a year of memorial celebrations--"Twenty-Five Years of Peace"--earlier this month with a service at the Holy Cross Basilica, a multi-million dollar monument to the war dead. The service will be followed by a year-long continuum of fairs, parades, dances, and patriotic exhibitions. "As tragic as were the dead," commented the government's Director-General...
Completely won over, Brazil's influential 0 Estado de Sāo Paulo called Kennedy's visit "one of the greatest events in the history of the American hemisphere. He is a real soldier, a soldier of peace.'' "A patriotic crusade," cried Mexico City's Ultimas Noticias, and even some sections of the Yankee-baiting press changed their tone. In Buenos Aires, a powerful, anti-Yankee Peronista leader was forced to admit: "After Bogotá's clear and courageous speech, there is nothing to do but applaud and support Kennedy and his alianza...
...believe people can be traded for things. I want all the prisoners freed." In Montevideo, the publishers of Uruguay's biggest papers called Castro a "slave runner" and put a tractor on a downtown platform to dramatize a fund-raising drive. Brazil's staid, respected O Estado de Sāo Paulo promised to buy one tractor itself, and was immediately flooded with offers of help from readers; some 2,000 students paraded through the city to raise funds. A man who said he was too poor to send money sent a set of tractor gears. In nearly...
Presidential Promises. Magalhaes is determined to correct the federal government's neglect of the state. "We have reached the utmost limits of human distress," Magalhaes says bitterly. The Sao Paulo newspaper 0 Estado agrees with him: "The nation has bled Bahia...