Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring approached and temperatures rose last week in southern Brazil, medical authorities cautiously expressed hope that the country's, and perhaps the hemisphere's, worst meningitis epidemic in history might be abating. But in the São Paulo area, where the disease has struck hardest, the death rate was still high. Estimates of the total number of cases there rose to 20,000 and deaths to as many as 3,000, but firm figures were unobtainable, partly because of censorship. In Porto Alegre, and in communities as far north as the Amazon, the disease was still...
...there have been increasingly widespread epidemics reaching a peak during the winter month of June. Normally concentrated among slum children, the disease this year has struck a large proportion of adults. It also appears to have crossed the class barrier, attacking the more affluent residents of São Paulo. Some doctors have suggested that the 1974 microbes may be mutants that are a menace to those handling the dead. So as to reduce the number of those exposed to possible infection, at least one hospital in São Paulo is placing victims' bodies in metal cases that...
...CHERRIE JR. Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...Paulo, Brazil...
...abandon them. He was obviously concerned about heading off a Rhodesian-style breakaway by the oil-rich colony. Gomes also offered the liberation fighters a cease-fire until self-determination can be negotiated. The guerrillas' response was immediate: "We refuse to be considered as black Portuguese," said Georges Paulo Texeira, spokesman for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the journal of Frelimo (the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), editorialized: "The only language [Lisbon] understands is the language of force." The guerrillas obviously agreed. They killed nine persons last week in Mozambique...