Word: marias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surrendering to the inevitable, he brought the Santa Maria into Recife harbor, dropped anchor 500 yds. from the pier. Tugboats ferried ashore the passengers and crew. Only then was it realized that Galváo had captured and controlled the big liner for twelve days with a tiny rebel force of 28 men-during some night watches as few as a dozen rebels must have been on duty. Brazilian marines took over the ship to guard against sabotage or an attempt to scuttle. The rebels stacked their arms in the lounge and, as he surrendered with full military honors, Galv...
Running Faucets. Safe on shore, the Santa Maria's Portuguese captain admitted that no attempt had been made to recapture the ship, although he and his officers did go around turning on faucets in the hope of thwarting Galváo through a shortage of fresh water. He asserted that only 16 of the rebels were Portuguese, that the rest were Communist "ruffians and scoundrels" of assorted nationalities. Galváo cried that not one of his men was a "Communist, or even a sympathizer." His navigator, a 52-year-old Spaniard named Jorge Souto Mayor, told reporters...
...first-class passengers had few complaints about their treatment. The rebel captors of the Santa Maria were mostly young, attractive and very correct. They paid for their own drinks at the ship's bars, danced with thrilled lady tourists, and apparently added a romantic note that made up for the discomforts of water rationing, badly prepared meals, and a growing sloppiness in the ship's housekeeping. The bitterest reports came from the 447 passengers traveling tourist, who not only stifled in their below-deck cabins but were also finally reduced to eating potatoes and beans. Once ashore...
What had Galváo hoped to accomplish by his seizure of the Santa Maria? In his own orotund phrasing, he declared: "We desired to prove, and we did prove, that Dictator Salazar is not invulnerable. We beat him and we ridiculed him-him and his navy-before the entire free and Christian world. Tomorrow, when and wherever we face him, we will beat him once more." What Galváo proposed for Portugal was "land for those who work it and a house for those who live in it. We will liquidate large landed estates as we will liquidate...
Dissatisfaction is most vocal in the ranks of the small middle class. In a letter to the Salazar government last week, 39 doctors, lawyers and writers said that the seizure of the Santa Maria "accentuates the deplorable conditions of our political life." They also complained that they had not yet received an answer to the Nov. 11 letter, signed by 275 professional men, which asked for increased political freedom and hinted that aging Dictator Salazar, 71, should retire...