Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week at the big coffee port of Santos, 13,000 dockers struck for even more, demanding a bonus on top of a bonus. Up to last December they received a yearly Christmas dividend equivalent to one-twelfth of their total earnings during the year. Then the federal government decreed that all Brazilian workers should receive a similar Christmas gift. The dockers reasoned that this entitled them to another bonus; the port concessionaire at Santos said no. Dockmen also demanded a 30-day paid vacation each year, full pay for days they are on strike, and a 20% "shame" bonus...
...Brazil's biggest cocoa port, some 180 stevedores were in the seventh week of a strike called to increase the size and pay of stevedore gangs that load cocoa aboard ships. The demands would raise the handling cost for a ton of cargo to $49 (v. $12 in New York) and price Brazil's cocoa right out of world markets...
During his hour-and-a-half speech, with time out for fortifying sips of port, Salazar appeared decrepit but sounded vigorous. Because of a wave of "black racism," he complained, Portugal's "civilizing mission" in Portuguese Guinea, Angola and Mozambique is in jeopardy. Asked Salazar: "Is the language that we teach those people superior to their dialects or not? Does the religion preached by the missionaries surpass fetishism or not? Is not belonging to a nation of civilized expression and world projection better than narrow regionalism without means for defense or progress...
...President Kennedy sunned on board the Honey Fitz off Hyannis Port on a recent Sunday, a Piper Cub droned back and forth overhead, towing a ban ner with a pointed message: JFK PLEASE HELP NORTHEAST AIRLINES. A few days later, Teddy Kennedy made his maiden speech in the Senate - and demanded that the Civil Aeronautics Board reverse its "tentative" decision against renewal of Boston-based North east's certificate to fly the New York-Miami route. Fearful of losing their jobs, Northeast's 2,200 employees organized a lobby, and some Northeast pilots even implored airborne passengers...
...sleepy fishing port of Phanthiet, 100 miles east of Saigon, a 21-year-old novice Buddhist monk named Nguyen Huong poured gasoline over his robes, then lit a match and turned himself into a human pyre. He was the second Buddhist priest to burn himself to death in protest against the authoritarian regime of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem and his ruling family...