Word: nio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glorious Page. In Portugal itself, Strongman Antōnio de Oliveira Salazar, after 33 years in power, hangs on to office as strongly as he hangs on to empire. Despite tax boosts, the government is finding it almost impossible to finance its colonial wars, and Lisbon talks grandly of African reforms to speed the independence of its colonies-once "pacification" is complete. But after the loss of unimportant Fort St. John in Dahomey last week. Portugal talked bombastically of regaining the lost fort "by all means within reach." A semiofficial Lisbon newspaper cried that in burning the fort and fleeing...
...Another Soviet visitation last week, a 39-man Russian good-will delegation, spent 95 minutes with Brazil's President Jânio Quadros, went away with assurances that Brazil would reestablish diplomatic relations with Russia after a break of 14 years...
President Jânio Quadros has warned his Cabinet that unless Brazil embarks on revolutionary reforms, some day, on some unknown hilltop, some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up to plague his nation...
...could only add that Quadros' great popularity among his people is not only due to his championing of their domestic cause but also to his unique Brazilian character. Just as only the United States could have produced Lincoln, only Brazil could have had a Jánio Quadros. With all his quaint eccentricities, he seems to have stepped directly out of a novel by Machado de Assis...
...week's end Portugal's Premier António de Oliveira Salazar told the National Assembly that he had no intention of complying with the U.N. resolution calling on Portugal to "halt measures of suppression" in Angola. Salazar charged that the U.S. was serving Communist subversion in Africa by voting for the resolution and offering support to Africa's black anti-colonialists. Said Salazar: "Everything in this world is beginning to be so topsy-turvy that those who do injury are considered worthy, those who defend themselves are criminals, and the states . . . which limit themselves to securing...