Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single-stacker Rio Tercero had been churning homeward 120 miles off New York. She was torpedoed without warning, her name, home port and Argentina's colors plainly visible in the early-morning light. Four sailors were killed; another drowned later. The Rio Tercero's captain said the submarine had had the name Innsbruck and a porcupine painted on its conning tower...
...democracy rolled back a sneak offensive of Argentina and totalitarianism last week. The occasion: a conference on "Coordination of Police & Judicial Measures," called to implement resolutions of the Rio Conference. The scene: the hall of Buenos Aires' democratically elected Municipal Council, which the Castillo regime had removed (TIME, Oct. 20) and replaced by hand-picked stooges...
...Rio Accord which brought the 'Police Conference into being was specific in its exclusively anti-Axis purposes: to scotch "systematic espionage, sabotage, and subversive propaganda .. . inspired by or under the direction of member States of the Tripartite Pact." Nevertheless, the Argentine Government, whose actions against the Nazis have been empty gestures but which has been carrying out a witch hunt against Communists and labor, wrote into one of last week's resolutions the distorting phrase, "Nazis, Fascists, and Communists." In an attempt to stampede the conference, the Argentine Gendarmeria Nacional made the timely "discovery...
Manoel Olimpio Meira, called "Jacare" (Alligator) after his natal village, became the modern hero of Brazil's jangadeiros, half-starved "sharecropping" fishermen, last autumn when he and three mates sailed their flimsy jangada (sailing raft) Sao Pedro on a 61-day, 1,650-mile trip to Rio de Janeiro to tell President Vargas the fishermen's troubles. From Getulio Vargas they won full union rights-and pensions. Their story (TIME, Dec. 8) so kindled Cinema Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)that he flew Jacare and his mates to Rio again, to enact their feat for his camera...
Deeply moved, Orson Welles revised his script, now dedicated throughout to "An American Hero." Inspired by Jacare's feat, four messenger boys of the Telegrafo Nacional planned to walk the same distance from Fortaleza to Rio to ask President Vargas for a better wage. But what would have pleased Jacare most was that the first pension won for the jangadeiros by his efforts goes to his wife and nine children...