Word: movimento
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Employees of the Farah Pant Company have been on strike in El Paso, Texas, since May. Over 80 per cent of them are Mexican-Americans, Carlos Alcala, a first year law student and a spokesman for the Movimento Estudiantil Chicano De Aztlan (MECDA), said yesterday...
Brazil is three years into its most ambitious plan to teach adults to read and write. Since the program, called Mobral (Movimento Brasileiro de Alfabetizaçāo), started in 1970, more than 3,000,000 adults have achieved at least basic literacy; that number is expected to quintuple by 1980. To reach Brazil's 15 million illiterates (26% of the population), Mobral has established 67,000 centers throughout the country. Yet despite the scope of the program, the cost of making a student literate is only $9.33, about $25 less than a UNESCO-estimated average. "There is nothing...
...president of the Common Market Commission, was easily re-elected a Christian Democratic Deputy. Admiral Gino Birindelli, until recently commander of NATO's Mediterranean naval forces and now the darling of Italy's right, also won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, representing the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano...
...alliance with the Socialists a decade ago. He has taken to attacking youthful demonstrators and proclaiming "we must react," as if to show that he is not now afraid to be called a reactionary. Fanfani, and leaders of other Italian parties, are really reacting to the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano, whose call for law-and-order-along with voter disenchantment with other issues-may well double M.S.I.'s small (24-seat) parliamentary bloc in next week's vote...
...murders," a fishwife in Rome's Piazza Vescovio outdoor market told Wynn. "It wasn't this way when we had Fascism, signore. We never had to lock our doors in those days." Milan's conservative magazine Oggi jokes that "the initials MSI no longer stand for Movimento Senza Importanza [Movement Without Importance]. Now they mean Maggioranza Silenziosa Italiana [Italy's Silent Majority...