Word: galv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeared in the officers' quarters and on the bridge. The third pilot dashed toward the captain's cabin, but was dropped with four bullets and died. In the wild shooting, an apprentice and a ship's doctor were wounded. Taking charge on the bridge, Henrique Galvão ordered the ship's engines stopped, then he picked up the intercom phone, got the captain and told him casually that he was taking over his ship. It was all over in ten minutes...
...Galvão ordered the Santa Maria to change course and turn east toward St. Lucia, one of Britain's Windward Islands. At 10 a.m. Galvao summoned the passengers to the tapestried first-class lounge, where the seizure was explained in Portuguese and Spanish, with an English resumé added for the benefit of 38 U.S. tourists...
...Galvão concluded the meeting by playing Tchaikovsky's militant 1812 Overture on the public address system. The casualties of the fight were put ashore at St. Lucia in a lifeboat manned by six sailors and a male nurse. Then the Santa Maria steamed off into the wide Atlantic...
...flowery Portuguese, Galvão radioed his "first official communiqué to all democratic newspapers of the free world." Speaking in the name of "General Humberto Delgado, legally elected President of the Portuguese Republic, who has been fraudulently deprived of his rights by the Salazar administration," Galvão saluted the "oppressed peoples" of Portugal and Spain, swore he had received aid from no foreign government, and added that the capture of the Santa Maria marked the liberation of the first piece of Portuguese "territory...
Hope of Asylum. There seemed little chance of capture by the Portuguese navy, whose major elements are four destroyers, twelve frigates and three submarines scattered among Portugal's far-flung possessions. Galvão announced that he was headed for Angola, the Portuguese African colony where he was once inspector general. But when trouble erupted in neighboring Congo last year, Lisbon rushed several battalions of crack troops to Angola, which would be more than a match for Galvão's 70 rebels and whatever sympathizers he may have in the colony. Brazilian observers speculated that Galv...