Word: lio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tight political and economic control. Economic austerity worked wonders, but one politically repressive move followed another until Costa e Silva dissolved Congress and instituted rule by decree. Last August he suffered a paralytic stroke and was replaced by a military junta, which two months ago named General Emílio Garrastazú Médici as President...
...chiefs were three of the President's strongest supporters - Army General Aurélio de Lyra Tavares, Air Marshal Márcia de Souza e Mello and Navy Admiral Augusto Hamann Ra-demaker Grunewald. It was they who had backed the old army marshal last December, when he suspended civilian rule. Moving smoothly and unhesitatingly, the triumvirate declared a "state of alert," temporarily closed down banks and blithely brushed aside Vice President Pedro Aleixo, a civilian lawyer who would normally have replaced an incapacitated President...
Died. Júlio de Mesquita Filho, 77, Brazilian publisher, head of O Estado de São Paulo, one of South America's most influential and respected dailies; of pneumonia; in São Paulo. All through the 1930s Mesquita fought the demagoguery, corruption and censorship of Dictator Getúlio Vargas and was one of the forces that eventually brought his overthrow in 1945. In 1964, Mesquita lent his powerful support to the coup that ousted Leftist President João Goulart, but later grew disenchanted with the military dictatorship that resulted, and rejoined the battle...
...North Vietnamese president sent a telegram several days before the march to Hughes and Dr. Benjamin Spock, noted pediatrician, who are co-chairmen of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear policy. The telegram was in reply to a message which SANE, had sent to lio regarding the march...
Industrial Push. The first faint breezes of change came in the 1950s when President Getúlio Vargas established the Bank of the Northeast to make economic studies of the area and handle industrial financing. Soon after, the Communists began exploiting the region's miseries by organizing Peasant Leagues, some 50,000 strong, to take over the land by force. Then the Roman Catholic Church jumped in, set up schools to teach reading and writing, started its own labor unions-at risk of rupture with the powerful landlords who had long held the peasants in virtual peonage. The government...