Word: galvao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most bizarre occurrence, one which forced the rebels to move before they had planned, took place some 7000 miles away in the Carribean. Henrique Malta Galvao, a former colonial High Inspector and a staunch opponent of the then dictator Antonio de Oliveria Salazar, seized the Portuguese luxury liner Santa Maria," the second largest ship in the nation's merchant navy. Along with 68 men armed with machine guns. Galvao hijacked the ship after leaving Curacao with 600 passengers and 300 crew members aboard...
...Galvao never made it. He had engine trouble and problems with the 900 captive traveling companions he had brought along. He was forced to land at Recife, Brazil, where the government gave him anylum, but returned the ship to the Portuguese...
Nonetheless, Galvao's announced plans brought dozens of journalists to Luanda for the first time. Eager to display their case before a watching foreign audience, a small group of mostly mulatoo intellectuals decided to launch an attack on Luanda main political prison...
Died. Henrique Galvao, 75, longtime Portuguese dissident who drew world attention in 1961 when he and his comrades commandeered the luxury liner Santa Maria in protest against the regime of Premier Antonio Salazar; in Sao Paulo, Brazil...