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Some Crusades. Before and after that interregnum, three generations of the Mesquita family have maintained the paper's integrity. Politically, O Estado has remained moderately conservative. Thus the paper has retained a power base among the rich while occasionally fighting for progressive causes. Julio Mesquita, grandfather of the present director, Julio de Mesquita Neto, was the son of landowners who gave up law for journalism. During the 1870s the paper crusaded successfully to abolish slavery. After the monarchy was overthrown, Mesquita supported the creation of a republic. Later, many regimes tried to suppress O Estado, and Mesquita was once...
...death in 1927, his son, Julio de Mesquita Filho, assumed control and battled Brazilian governments in the '30s and '40s. Twice Mesquita Filho was forced into exile. By 1964 he was back in Sao Paulo wielding political influence himself. He plotted with the military to overthrow leftist Joao Goulart, whom he suspected of heading toward totalitarianism. Once in power, however, the new rulers turned authoritarian, and O Estado again found itself in opposition...
...Filho's death in 1969, his son, Julio de Mesquita Neto, took over the paper. He has continually defied the government's request for self-censor ship. Instead, when the censors cut sto ries, he filled the blank space with excerpts from Poet Luis Vaz de Camoes epic work Os Lusiadas, about Portuguese adventures in the Orient. The paper has also resisted in other ways...
...most ambitious valley varietal venture was launched a decade ago by the brothers Ernest and Julio Gallo, the industry's biggest but not most celebrated producers. The results could finally be sampled when the firm recently began releasing 200,000 cases of its first varietals on a market earlier entered by such other California wineries as Lamont and Inglenook Navelle. Among the best are three white wines of French ancestry: a dry aromatic Sauvignon Blanc, a smooth pale Chenin Blanc and a Colombard, a rich, fruity wine that is somewhat sweeter than its French cousin. Gallo has also produced...
...Fresh Pond Shopping Center. Last year Gallo signed a sweetheart contract with the Teamsters in an effort to escape facing a struggle with the UFW over workers' rights, but the tactic hasn't been very successful. The Gallo boycott has had its initial effects, but Ernie and Julio need a little more friendly persuasion. Chavez will try to raise some money for his union Saturday night at a $5-a-plate dinner being held at Boston College's Roberts Center. Arnold Miller, president of the UMW, and folksinger Phil Ochs will also attend the fundraiser, scheduled...