Word: humberto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born out of wedlock but recognized by the father. Only a third of all Venezuela's women are married, and another 20% live as concubines. Divorce, once rare in the predominantly Catholic country, has doubled in two decades. In a pastoral letter last fall, Caracas' José Humberto Cardinal Quintero and all Venezuela's bishops tried to remind Venezuelans of the "dignity and obligation of fatherhood." Says Caracas Lawyer Aristides Calvani, a sponsor of child-care legislation: "Many of our people do not get married; their fathers did not, and neither did their grandfathers. It has always...
Since his days as Portugal's NATO military attache in Washington a decade ago, General Humberto Delgado, 55, has been an admirer of General Douglas MacArthur. He is not an admirer, however, of Portugal's Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. After Delgado fled to exile in Brazil in 1959, he began flooding his homeland with cream-colored pictures bearing a familiar slogan. "En voltarei," they proclaimed-"I shall return...
Three years ago such a temporary flush of excitement was provided by Gen. Humberto Delgado, who actually traveled around the country criticizing Salazar and polled nearly a quarter of the vote. Irritated, Salazar revised the electoral system to ensure that the Portuguese would never have another chance to choose anything but a college of electors...
...coldly silent efficiency that suggested expert Communist coaching. The island's radio stations broadcast no news but plenty of lively music, as a reign of terror spread across the island. The Castro government itself boasted that it had executed 29 persons, including Castro's ex-Agriculture Minister Humberto Sori Marín as well as three Americans, for plotting to assassinate Castro. Foreign correspondents were herded-along with 1,000 or more Cubans whose loyalty to Castro was questioned-into makeshift concentration camps in the Havana Sports Palace and a downtown hotel. Across the island, members of Castro...
...General Humberto Delgado, 54, Portugal's most celebrated revolutionary, has lived in exile in São Paulo, Brazil for the past two years. An air force general and longtime supporter of the regime, Delgado struck out for himself in 1958 when he broke all the rules by campaigning seriously for the presidency of Portugal in one of Salazar's mock elections. There were plenty of issues to campaign on. After 29 years of Salazar's glacial rule, literacy barely reaches 60%, the tuberculosis rate is almost double that of any other Western European country...