Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says, and it is well organized in cells throughout the republic in all six provinces. Local cells control secret armed combat units, and he himself moves about the country helping to organize and train them. (The day before, I learned later, he had been in western Pinar del Rio.) I asked whether these units could stand off the army. "Do not believe the army is with Batista," he said. "It is run now by a handful of Batista officers, but in the end we can be sure of the loyalty of the greater part of the army...
Four hours after landing in New Orleans, President Eisenhower turned his eyes to Texas and a quiet weekend at the 15,000-acre ranch of Democratic Governor Allan Shivers. This week he continued his southward journey into Mexico. Crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo, he met Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and with him dedicated the $50 million international Falcon Dam, a five-mile-long earth and rock-fill barrier, that will bring irrigation and flood control to both sides of the Rio Grande and electricity to light up the border towns. Before the dedication, both Presidents watched...
...Easy Position. The tribute was well earned. Lacerda has been fighting with his fists, his booming voice and his pen ever since he started out as a reporter on a daily in Rio at 14. Grandson of a Brazilian supreme court justice, Lacerda worked closely with Brazil's Communist Party, which two of his uncles had helped start, often led student strikes and demonstrations against the government. In 1935, with the police on his trail, he was smuggled to his grandfather's mango farm in the false bottom of a coffee truck. Four years later he broke sharply...
...Lacerda dumped canned government propaganda editorials in the wastebasket, regularly broke the ironhanded censorship of Dictator Vargas. "You put me in a difficult position [with the government]," Chateaubriand told Lacerda one day. Snapped back Lacerda: "I put you in an easy one. I resign." Lacerda became a columnist on Rio's Correio da Hanha, and, says he, "we demoralized censorship by ignoring...
...Great Honor. In 1945 Lacerda, a bitter antiCommunist, took out after the Reds' "poor but honest candidate" for the presidency, punctured his chances of rolling up a big vote by pointing out that he owned 30 Rio apartment houses. When he launched an attack on strong-arm generals in the new government-which had replaced the dictatorship-five thugs beat him up on the street. Later he was cornered by hoodlums in the elevator of his apartment, escaped in the scuffle with only a cheekbone cracked. As his popularity spread, his voice became familiar over a Rio radio station...