Word: oliveira
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...Nathan Oliveira...
...Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, the evening spent at the University was one of reminiscence over his accomplishments as President of Brazil. Stopping by Cambridge in the middle of a rapid lecture tour of the United States, the man who preceded Janio Quadros gave a quick sketch of Brazil's major economic problems and the measures his Administration had designed to deal with them...
Since his days as Portugal's NATO military attache in Washington a decade ago, General Humberto Delgado, 55, has been an admirer of General Douglas MacArthur. He is not an admirer, however, of Portugal's Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. After Delgado fled to exile in Brazil in 1959, he began flooding his homeland with cream-colored pictures bearing a familiar slogan. "En voltarei," they proclaimed-"I shall return...
...Portugal, a somewhat amateurish band of conspirators tried to unseat Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. At 2 a.m. New Year's Day, as heavy winds and rain lashed the wheatfields around Beja, 85 miles southeast of Lisbon, a sentry at the 3rd Infantry Regiment barracks was roused by the approach of four automobiles. Recognizing three of his own regimental officers, he waved the cars inside the gate. But the cars also carried a score of workers from Lisbon's suburb of Almada, and such sworn foes of the Salazar regime as ex-Army Captain João Varela Gomes...
Nehru has been trying to get Portugal to pull out of Goa (pop. 700,000) since the British withdrew from India in 1947* Unlike France, which reluctantly quit its last Indian possessions in 1954, Portugal's Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar insists that the 451-year-old colony, like his country's other overseas possessions, is a Portuguese "province." After breaking off diplomatic relations with the Portuguese in 1955, Nehru declared loftily: "History will remove them...