Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rail center of Córdoba, Argentina's third biggest city (pop. 350,000). Two Gloster Meteor jet fighters flown by air-force pilots rained down leaflets declaring that the city "has been conquered again for God and the fatherland." Rebel sailors took over the naval bases at Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano (see map). Army garrisons seized control of the inland barracks towns of Arroyo Seco and Curuzu-Cuati...
State of Siege. Under the command of General Franklin Lucero, Perón's trusted Army Minister, the government fought back. Lucero & Co. put the entire country under a state of siege, clamped an 8 p.m. curfew on the capital. Loyalist forces besieged the Rio Santiago naval base. Pounded by planes and outnumbered at least two to one on the ground, the defending navymen surrendered late that night. The next morning the government announced that its troops had wrested Arroyo Seco and Curuzú-Cuatiá from the rebels...
...young, upcountry schoolteacher arrived in Rio de Janeiro last week, and within a matter of hours became the heroine of Brazil's worldly, pleasure-loving capital. She was Bernadete Gomez, 25, and she had come to devote the last few months of her life to a national campaign against cancer, the disease that is slowly killing...
Home to Teach. Bernadete never dreamed of becoming a national figure when she returned from Natal's high school eight years ago to teach in her native village of Currais Novos (pop. 2,643) in Rio Grande do Norte state. She was 17 then, young enough to take part in her pupils' games, pretty enough to attract the crowd of village swains who gathered daily in the sunny square. Her 30 charges accepted her as one of themselves and fondly called her "professorinha"-little teacher...
...Lima newspaper: ECUADORIAN CRYBABIES AT IT AGAIN. But the O.A.S. shifted its well-oiled peace-keeping machinery into high gear, called for a meeting of the U.S., Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the four "guarantors" of the 1942 Ecuador-Peru border agreement. Representatives of the four countries got together in Rio that same evening, set up two inspection teams made up of their military attaches in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian capitals. By the following afternoon, the inspectors were scanning the border regions from the air. They reported no evidence of an unusual military buildup. But even if it was just another...