Word: nio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stunt was planned and plotted by Portugal's Henrique Galvão, 65, soldier, playwright, pamphleteer. His object was to dramatize the wrongs wrought by Premier António Salazar, who is unquestionably a dictator, but a man so seemingly mild that even the most fervent libertarians have trouble working up any great indignation against his regime...
...crack troops to Angola, which would be more than a match for Galvão's 70 rebels and whatever sympathizers he may have in the colony. Brazilian observers speculated that Galvão was simply cruising about in the Atlantic until newly elected President Jânio da Silva Quadros takes office this week, in the hope that he will grant asylum to Galv...
...Here Comes Jânio," cried the cam paign slogan of President-elect Jânio Quadros. Last week Brazilians wondered if the slogan might better read: "There Went Jânio." Shortly after his election last October...
...nio did manage to keep in hazy contact with his country. A chosen few Brazilians went to Europe and returned bearing unofficial statements. "Quadros will follow an independent policy in international relations," ventured one such in formant. "He will try to maintain good relations with all countries that want to do business with us." Others reported that Quadros was anxious to trade with Red China, that he wanted to meet with Nas ser and Nehru, that he was not (as some feared) going to scrap Brasilia as the capital, that he was studying the administration of Europe, that...
...large as Western Europe. One is square, massive Angola (pop. 4,500,000), which sprawls below the Congo along 1,100 miles of the western Atlantic shore, where Lisbon's navigators arrived in the isth century. Across the continent is the other half of Dictator-Premier António de Oliveira Salazar's African empire, Mozambique (pop. 6,300,000), whose Indian Ocean ports are among the best on the east coast. In both, the populations are sealed off from the outside world with ruthless efficiency by a European regime that openly proclaims its intention to hang...