Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military hated the words. "A subversive lyric," said General Luis de Franĉa Oliveira, Rio's secretary of public security. "A musical cadence of the Mao Tse-tung type that can easily serve as the anthem for student street demonstrations." In a fit of anger, police in Rio's main street arrested one group of youths merely for listening to Caminhando outside a record shop...
...Paulo's influential Jornal da Tarde declared such a mass arrest of benefit only to those "who fight to install a totalitarian regime in the country." In Rio, 200 students invaded the Education Ministry offices on Flamengo Beach. They grabbed books and pieces of scenery belonging to the National Theater Conservatory and heaved the lot out of office windows. They blocked traffic and collected tolls on an ad jacent expressway. In Fortaleza, police broke up student demonstrations with what they called "family-size" nightsticks. In São Paulo, the students' midnight skulkers sprayed "UNE" in paint...
Green Cards. Wetbacks from Mexico have been entering the U.S. in a rising flood. Last month border patrolmen of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service seized more than 14,000-1,000 more than the monthly average. Thousands more filter past roadblocks and airplane spotters or wade the shallow Rio Grande in search of jobs as "stoop" laborers on farms. Most wetback workers make it across the border on their own. Illegal labor contractors smuggle others across...
...debt-ridden limbo of menial jobs and ghetto housing. This contemporary demographic disaster is the subject of Voyage of Silence, a somber documentation of a Portuguese peasant's emigration to France. Produced by Philippe de Broca-a new wave filmmaker best known for frothy fantasy (That Man from Rio, The Five-Day Lover)-the movie is a small masterpiece of compassionate observation and emotional restraint...
...years from now the new plants, plus the increased smelting capacity of Alcan Aluminium Ltd., should be able to put 348,000 short tons of ingots on the market annually, but some analysts are predicting an aluminum glut before then. Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto, disagrees. "If you look at it globally, that must be nonsense," he says...