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...disclosing scandals in companies that belong to the people's patrimony. What they want is to destroy Petrobras. I believe in the defense of Petrobras." As part of that defense, he fired the company's three directors and its crusading President Silva. To replace Silva, Goulart chose Marshal Osvino Alves, 66, an old friend and former chief of Brazil's first army -who took over as the eighth president of Petrobras in ten years...
...performance of Scully and Sadlacok When Sadlacok in "on," he is the best outside-shooting guard Harvard has had in years. But when he's off, he's awful, and last weekend against Brown and Yale the 6-1 sophomore was shooting about as accurately as Marshal Dillon's adversaries in Dedge City gunfights...
Though Washington and London withheld recognition, many officials clung to the hope that Zanzibar would not in fact turn out to be another Cuba. They insisted that President Abeid Karume was a determined African nationalist, not a Communist. And though U.S. intelligence sources were certain "Field Marshal" John Okello had been trained in Cuba, it was becoming increasingly clear that he wielded little power in the new government. Last week Okello was back at his broadcasting chores, warning civilians to lay down their guns. "Otherwise," he bellowed in his own arresting argot, "you will see how we hang people...
Bows & Arrows. The transition was swift and bloody. Led by a fanatical Uganda-born and Cuban-trained "field marshal" named John Okello, 27, a ragtag, 600-man army carrying pangas, bows and arrows raided two police armories. Then the rebels swept into Zanzibar Town before dawn, passing out guns to Afro-Shirazis and members of the outlawed Red Chinese-orientated Umma Party. In less than twelve hours, the Arab government of Sultan Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla had fallen, its ministers were in jail, and the 34-year-old sultan himself was hurrying toward asylum in Tanganyika...
Okello quickly took to the radio, boasting and threatening like a mad witch doctor. "It is I, the field marshal, who speaks," he boomed, posturing in his specially designed black uniform. "The power behind me is 999,999,000. I shall take severe measures, 88 times more severe than my predecessors. Anyone looting even a bar of soap will be liable to jail for no less than eight years. I can make 100 grenades in an hour...