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...Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church, Camara has gained notariety for championing the cause of the poor and oppressed, particularly in the Northeastern part of Brazil, one of the poorest sections of the world...
...repression continued to generate an air of political euphoria, Portugal's economic problems looked more serious than ever. The coalition government's vague promises of price stabilization and better working conditions did little to quell the increasing restlessness of Portugal's workers, who are the poorest paid in Western Europe and have to cope with an annual 30% inflation...
...poorest taste award" went to the raft "Quivering Thigh," whose crew, in a last-minute effort to gather poorest taste points, exposed themselves to spectators standing on the Weeks Bridge...
...struggle to keep the territories has nearly wrecked Portugal. The poorest nation in all of Europe-poorer even than the Communist regimes of the East, with the probable exception of Albania-Portugal has nonetheless allotted more of its national budget to the Africa fighting for the past 13 years than to any other project. As a result, the home country has gone without essential improvements in roads, schools and just about everything else a modern economy needs. Nearly 2 million people have violated restrictions against emigration to find jobs in other countries or to escape the mandatory four-year tour...
...Journal's Eastern editions advising investors that the shares would be a bad buy. The ad quoted at length from testimony before the North Carolina Utilities Commission last October in which Duke President Carl Horn Jr. said that "Duke Power's financial condition is currently among the poorest in the entire industry." Next day 18 miners, some wearing boots and safety lamps, picketed the New York Stock Exchange to ram home the message. The stock issue sold out anyway, but the U.M.W. plans a similar campaign next month to defeat a Duke attempt to sell $100 million worth...