Word: galv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighters of the Portuguese air force whined overhead, tugboats and pleasure craft blew their whistles as the 20,906-ton liner Santa Maria last week steamed majestically up the Tagus River, back in its home port and in Portuguese control after its twelve-day captivity by rebel Captain Henrique Galv...
Reporters hustled to Portugal's torpid African colony of Angola last month in the belief that it was the destination of the cruise ship Santa Maria, seized by Portuguese Rebel Henrique Galvão and his 28 men. When the captured ship was tamely interned at Recife in Brazil, many reporters went back to their normal posts, but seven stayed on in Angola to see what they could...
Surrendering to the inevitable, he brought the Santa Maria into Recife harbor, dropped anchor 500 yds. from the pier. Tugboats ferried ashore the passengers and crew. Only then was it realized that Galváo had captured and controlled the big liner for twelve days with a tiny rebel force of 28 men-during some night watches as few as a dozen rebels must have been on duty. Brazilian marines took over the ship to guard against sabotage or an attempt to scuttle. The rebels stacked their arms in the lounge and, as he surrendered with full military honors, Galv...
Running Faucets. Safe on shore, the Santa Maria's Portuguese captain admitted that no attempt had been made to recapture the ship, although he and his officers did go around turning on faucets in the hope of thwarting Galváo through a shortage of fresh water. He asserted that only 16 of the rebels were Portuguese, that the rest were Communist "ruffians and scoundrels" of assorted nationalities. Galváo cried that not one of his men was a "Communist, or even a sympathizer." His navigator, a 52-year-old Spaniard named Jorge Souto Mayor, told reporters...
...What had Galváo hoped to accomplish by his seizure of the Santa Maria? In his own orotund phrasing, he declared: "We desired to prove, and we did prove, that Dictator Salazar is not invulnerable. We beat him and we ridiculed him-him and his navy-before the entire free and Christian world. Tomorrow, when and wherever we face him, we will beat him once more." What Galváo proposed for Portugal was "land for those who work it and a house for those who live in it. We will liquidate large landed estates as we will liquidate...