Word: nio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy's orders. A former TV quiz-scandal investigator who proved a valuable campaign speechwriter for Kennedy last fall, Goodwin wrote Kennedy's highly successful speech introducing his hemispheric "Alliance for Progress." Later, Goodwin was sent to size up Brazil's U.S.-shy President Jánio Quadros shortly before the abortive Cuban venture. So sweeping is Goodwin's new authority that the State Department has been instructed to consult him on all matters dealing with Cuba...
...world's most durable dictator turned 72 last week. It was surely the unhappiest birthday for AntÓnio de Oliveira Salazar in the 29 years of his one-man rule of Portugal. He confronted growing unrest at home, bloody rebellion in his big African colony of Angola, found few sympathetic world allies anywhere except in South Africa. But in his first interview in five years (to Brazil's 0 Cruzeiro Correspondent Mario de Moraes) the old autocrat was as acid and abrasive as ever...
...ambassadors were called in to discuss the possibility of joint action by the Organization of American States. Said one Latin American ambassador: "Some sort of joint intervention appears to be inevitable. It's a very serious thing." Ambassadors are not governments; yet even Brazil's Jânio Quadros, leading exponent of mediation before the Cuban defeat, was reported to be in favor of some form of OAS sanctions. Known to be deeply shocked at Castro's blatant Communism, Quadros last week issued a joint statement with Argentine President Arturo Frondizi, calling on Latin American nations...
...Lisbon docks, long lines of Jeeps and trucks waited for the next ship to Africa. At the airfields, planes loaded with paratroopers took off and headed south. Dictator Premier António de Oliveira Salazar was marshaling his forces to extirpate the black rebels of Angola, Portugal's richest overseas possession...
Spies in the Consulates. The heavy hand of Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar's political police, the P.I.D.E., reached into every corner of the province. Some 150 Angolans were arrested and thrown in jail as politically suspect. Most conspicuous prisoner was the Roman Catholic vicar general of Angola, Msgr. Manuel Mendes das Neves, 70, a distinguished mulatto churchman whose principal crime was his outspoken sermons advocating African rights. All foreign newsmen are kept under surveillance, their phone calls tapped, their cables censored. Even foreign consulates are watched. Said one diplomat: "There is not a single local employee...