Word: galv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stunt was planned and plotted by Portugal's Henrique Galvão, 65, soldier, playwright, pamphleteer. His object was to dramatize the wrongs wrought by Premier António Salazar, who is unquestionably a dictator, but a man so seemingly mild that even the most fervent libertarians have trouble working up any great indignation against his regime...
Disguised Doctor. Galvão had intimate knowledge of just how oppressive Salazar's rule can be. He served as inspector general of the African colony of Angola and irritated the dictator with a report denouncing Portuguese mistreatment of the Angolans. Jailed in Portugal, Galvão continued to write, and smuggle out, pamphlets attacking Salazar's rule. Sentenced to an additional twelve years' imprisonment, he feigned illness, was sent to a Lisbon hospital and walked out disguised as a doctor. Escaping Portugal, Galvão went first to the Argentine and turned up in Venezuela...
...Under Galvão's direction, young men of the junta went into training at a "vacation camp" near Caracas and practiced calisthenics and hand-to-hand fighting. A girl sympathizer got a job as telephone operator on the Santa Maria. During several voyages she memorized the ship's communications system and noted the stations taken by the crew during night watches...