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...fierce than continuing an almost mortal combat between the White House and the CIA. The dark deed that makes the plot boil, in fact, is a political murder, secretly ordered by Democratic President William Arthur Curry and carried out by the CIA on a Latin American beachhead (here called Rio de Muerte) easily identifiable as the Bay of Pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modified, Limited Hangout | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...popular mandate for a coalition of Socialists and Communists. But Cunhal's rivals did not agree. Describing the vote as a clear rejection of the Communists, Sà Carneiro called for a coalition of center parties that would bar a role for Cunhal. Socialist Leader Mário Soares insisted that he would deal with no one and promised to try to form a minority government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: The Virtues of Indecision | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, 30, who works as an insurance executive in Rio de Janeiro; he is married to Maria da Gloria, great-great-granddaughter of Brazil's last emperor, and is known as Alexander Karageorgevitch; they have no children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Keepers of the Flame | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...horn-honking buses and automobiles streaked through the cobbled hills of Lisbon. From their windows fluttered red flags emblazoned with the Socialist symbol-the clenched fist. Their destination was the First of May Stadium, where some 100,000 supporters turned out last week to hear Socialist Leader Mário Soares and watch folk dancers, prancing majorettes and a blaring drum-and-bugle corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Another Step Toward Democracy | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...conducted shortly before Thanksgiving. For many Chicanos who volunteered to make the trips out west, the experience involved several hardships. The group visited four or five high schools each day for seven days. There was no studying and there were no wages. Viola Canales '79, who recruited in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas says "when I went down to the valley, it was no vacation...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: Two Stories of Minority Admissions | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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