Word: oliveira
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ringed the field before the game, the Soviet Union's hard-working Andrei Bal shocked the crowd of 70,000 when his shot was mishandled by Brazil's Goalie Waldir Peres Arruda. Then came a dazzling display of attacking, creative soccer. A player named Dr. Socrates B. Oliveira, 28, Brazil's physician-turned-forward and the squad's field general, came to life against the Soviets, who had trained near Moscow and were unprepared for the 86° heat of Seville. Socrates evened the score in the second half, and in the last ten minutes...
DIED. Marcello Caetano, 74, Prime Minister of Portugal for six years before being ousted by a military coup in 1974; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Appointed Prime Minister in 1968, when longtime Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was incapacitated by a stroke, Caetano made some abortive moves toward liberalization and tried vainly to preserve Portugal's eroding colonial empire by continuing costly wars hi Mozambique and Angola before his dismissal by the junta of General Antonio de Spinola...
...said I fouled by dragging my right foot at the end of the step," he recounted. "When I demanded an English interpreter and appealed for the track referee, the judge just shrugged and had the area raked. I am sick over it!" All told, Campbell and Brazilian Joao de Oliveira, 26, the Soviets' other main challenger, were called for fouls on nine of their twelve jumps...
...mile journey with an exhausting itinerary that took the Pope all over Brazil, the world's largest Roman Catholic nation. The papal plane touched down at Brasilia, the futuristic capital of Brazil, where the Pope marked out one of his major themes by offering President Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo a sermon on social justice. The tour's pitch rose in Belo Horizonte, the nation's third largest city. Youths cheered wildly and chanted, "The Pope is our king!" John Paul spoke movingly to them of life under the Nazis, when, he said, "I saw my convictions...