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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...
...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...