Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chance to become emasculated in a Viet Nam foxhole, to drop napalm bombs on women and children, to experience dysentery and malaria. Strive on, Horatio. Well, to hell with the U.S.A., Viet Nam and the Great Society. I've had it. I am on my way to Rio de Janeiro to open a pet shop selling armadillos to Chilean soccer players. Can you think of a happier ending for a sneaker-wearing Vietnik...
...successful businessman-politician with credentials that make him a man of admired organizational ability. Canadians remember him as the youngest member of Louis St. Laurent's Cabinet in the late 1940s and early '50s; he then left politics to take over the presidency of the Rio Tinto Mining Co. of Canada, Ltd., and only re-entered politics this fall at Pearson's pleading...
Shut Up. The first stroke went left, when 100 "intellectuals," mostly students and writers, staged a noisy demonstration at the OAS foreign ministers' conference in Rio. Waving banners proclaiming "Down with dictatorship! Up with democracy!", they put on an unpleasant little scene just as Castello Branco drove up to open the conference at the Hotel Gloria. Nine of the leaders were clapped in jail for illegally demonstrating against the government. Last week, the conference over, they were released, and their supporters, who were planning a protest rally, were left with nothing to protest...
...more dangerous challenge came from the hard-line military officers who backed the coup against leftist President João Goulart 20 months ago. They took bitter issue with the President's determination to honor the results of the October gubernatorial elections in eleven states-including Guanabara (Rio), where the surprise winner was an old-time politician whom the military has been grilling about Communist ties' Castello Branco reacted by shutting down a far-rightist military group known as LIDER, then bolstered his strength at the First Army's huge base outside Rio by putting...
Sweaty Santas. Though the U.S. has made the Christmas pageant what it is today, other countries have recognized a good thing when they see it. Two weeks ago, some 100,000 mothers and children crowded into Rio de Janeiro's Flamengo Park and watched a helicopter approach. Everyone burst into a frenzied shout when it finally touched down and disgorged a befurred Santa Claus, sweating gamely in the 90° heat...