Word: rio
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Bugs & Mice. In 1595 the Viceroy of New Spain (Mexico) granted a wealthy mining man named Don Juan de Oñate the right to found, at his own expense, a colony on the upper Rio Grande in what is now New Mexico. Oñate set out for his new domain leading an army of 400 Spanish settlers and soldiers, 83 wagons and carts, 7,000 head of livestock, eight priests and a poet named Villagrá, who wrote a flowery epic about the expedition. Leaving the wagon train near the site of modern El Paso, Don Juan...
Goulart's conservative opposition had already rejected his first choice for a Prime Minister, and Goulart himself had fallen out with his second. His third choice was hardly reassuring, Francisco de Paula Brochado da Rocha, 51, comes from Goulart's home state of Rio Grande do Sul and is an aide and confidant to Leonel Brizola, the state's rabble-rousing, far-left governor. Brochado da Rocha himself was a key man in the expropriation last February of Rio Grande's $7,000,000 U.S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. subsidiary. Still, sensing the public unrest...
...hour general strike called by labor leaders in support of President Joāo ("Jango'') Goulart, who for three weeks has been engaged in a bitter power struggle with Brazil's Congress. In the town of Duque de Caxias, an industrial suburb ten miles from Rio, workers milled in the streets demonstrating against shortages of rice, beans and other staples. A jittery guard fired two shots, one of them hitting a small child. The crowd turned berserk, beat the guard to death, and for two days mobs sacked the town, looting stores and attacking merchants. Before...
...proved. At week's end, Goulart asked the Supreme Electoral Tribunal for a plebiscite within 30 days to restore the powers of the President. The country's military brass now gave Goulart their blessing, and it seemed likely that the voters would do the same. Said Rio's respected Jornal do Brasil: "The head must come back to its place. A true power must occupy the vacuum which now exists...
Each morning, in his extradition-proof haven of Brazil, Edward Mortimer Gilbert, 38, trudges down to take the sun along Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach...