Word: rio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alves intimate, refused to discuss the scheme, but even government-controlled papers hastily denounced it. Since then, an anti-Communist slate has easily won control of the nation's 358-member journalists' union. Thirty of the 54 editorial staffers of the government-controlled daily Diário de Notícias have denounced the paper's Communist line, and 17 newsmen of the state television system have demanded the resignation of Correia Jesuino...
...government and its Communist friends have not taken this independence lightly. All 30 of the Diário de Notícias rebels have been suspended. Meanwhile, Gonçalves has tried to rally public opinion by condemning unfriendly publications as "those rags and those libertines." More ominous are reports that the government plans to cut the supply of newsprint to dissenting newspapers-and worse. "I think that there should be one morning newspaper and one afternoon newspaper," Correia Jesuino told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott. "We can't afford to have so many newspapers...
Even aides of President Francisco Costa Gomes acknowledged privately that the Communist-leaning Gonçalves had been irredeemably discredited. In the course of a 2½-hour meeting at Belem Palace, Costa Gomes reportedly asked Socialist Leader Mário Soares for a six weeks' grace period to arrange Gonçalves' resignation and restore political parties to representation in the government. Soares rejected the proposal. Soon afterward, he was backed by 7,000 Socialists who marched on Belem Palace shouting "Vasco must resign...
...military. Certain to be absent from the Cabinet are the moderates-the Socialists and centrist Popular Democrats, who together polled nearly two-thirds of the vote in last April's Constituent Assembly election. In opposition to the M.F.A.'s recent authoritarian measures, Socialist Party Leader Mário Soares and officials of the Popular Democrats prohibited their party colleagues from participating in the new government. Denouncing the Directory as unconstitutional, Soares called for a broadly representative "government of national salvation," warning last week that "the rhythm of our revolution is too fast...
...state, frost damaged 50% to 70% of the coffee trees. The effect on prices was instant. Within a week of the frost, coffee rose from 52? to 84? per Ib. on the London commodities market, as nervous traders rushed to snap up supplies in case of a shortage. In Rio de Janeiro, supermarkets lifted prices 53?, to $1.29 per Ib. And in the U.S. last week, the General Foods Corp. hiked its wholesale prices for grocery brands (including Maxwell House) by 20? per Ib. for ground coffee and 3? per oz. for freeze-dried and instant. Other wholesalers planned similar...