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From then on it was undeclared war, and Lacerda is a formidable antagonist. He returned to Rio and announced that Justice Minister Horta had invited him to join a Quadros plot to grab more authority for himself by sending Brazil's holdover Congress into permanent recess. As Lacerda's charges began to stir a fuss, Quadros dramatically resigned. It was seven years and a day from the resignation and suicide of Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, another President who had incurred Lacerda's wrath...
...Cincinnati revolt against Hoffa was led by an outspoken ex-milkman named James T. Luken, 39, president of the Teamsters' Cincinnati Joint Council, who has long tried to curb Hoffa's power grab from within the union. But after the Miami convention, where Hoffa showed "the most complete dictatorial control that I have ever witnessed or read of in a free society," Luken decided that enough was enough, went home to persuade his workers to vote...
...political commissariat in Berlin was on the second floor of a dismal concrete building on a thoroughfare named, of all things, Wallstrasse-Wall Street. From these few dingy rooms, the faithful Ulbricht, now sporting a wispy mustache and a pointed little Lenin beard, sent his agents fanning out to grab control-first of the Berlin city administration, then of every town and city in the Soviet zone...
...pedestrians arched their brows at an open manhole from which floated the ball-game scores. Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy of a local radio station. "Grab a hunk of sky," mouths Marshal Matt Dillon from the TV screen. "Ghur sao chiu tin" rasps radio's Cantonese cowpoke...
Viet Nam (land of the south) has long been a magnet for conquerors. First came the Chinese, who drove south in the 2nd century B.C. to grab control for a thousand years, labeling the area Annam (pacified south), exacting tributes of pearls, precious stones, elephant tusks and valuable woods for the Emperor. Cleverly, the Annamese took the best China had to offer?the Chinese classics, the ethics of Confucius, and Mahayana Buddhism. But they fought fiercely and persistently to regain their independence...