Word: goa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frantic, one-page epilogue. The book is stuffed with boiler-plate material-photo essays on starving Congolese and primitive Ecuadorians that are technically brilliant but utterly irrelevant. And there are glaringly misleading statements, such as Barbara Ward's "Asia, apart from pockets of territory such as Goa, is free...
...Lisbon, Portuguese officialdom claimed a "moral victory.'' More important to Indians was the fact that the enclaves were clearly destined to remain Indian territory in practice, if not in law. Enthusiasts announced that their next target would be ancient Goa, biggest of Portugal's remaining Indian possessions. But Goa would be harder to "liberate." Since it is on the coast, Portugal can easily reinforce Goa's garrison without crossing Indian territory...
...presidency. Last year Portugal twitched again when the government announced that it had smashed a military plot to overthrow aging Dr. Salazar. Among those arrested: handsome Captain José de Almeida Santos, 39. a cavalry officer with a record of distinguished service in the Portuguese colonies of Goa and Mozambique...
Centuries later, after a religious war, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa had the tooth ground in a mortar and spread the powder on the sea. But legends do not die so easily. A Sinhalese prince proclaimed that the tooth had miraculously reassembled itself and miraculously returned to the sanctuary of the Temple of the Tooth. Ever since, it has reposed there, as a symbol of Sinhalese nationalism...