Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rattled Noncoms. Last month the austere ballroom of Rio de Janeiro's Military Club shook with saber-rattling debate as officers protested the chaos and inflation around them and issued a two-week ultimatum for a 100% pay increase. Unless they got higher pay, shouted one officer, "it will not be the fall of the Bastille, but of Brasilia." Such talk annoyed the noncommissioned officers, a more left-wing bunch, who tend to consider Goulart something of a kindred spirit. From Rio's Sergeants' Club came accusations that the generals wanted to overthrow the President. A pair...
...typical Fernandes performance, the kind that has lifted him to his position as prickliest political pundit in all Brazil. Starting out at 19 reporting for Rio de Janeiro's O Cruzeiro, he bounced from paper to magazine to paper, always making a success, always eventually quitting after a scrap with the boss...
Last week the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision freeing Fernandes. The confident columnist had already bought his ticket back to Rio where he promptly called a press conference. "I will continue to publish any information of interest, be it of a military nature or not," he said. Then he sat down and wrote about his arrest and army interrogations. He was not about to forgive and forget. He called his story "Diary of an Act of Despotism...
Mexico has never forgiven the U.S. for a little piece of Yanqui land chiseling. Back in the mid-1800s, the unpredictable course of the Rio Grande shifted southward at El Paso, leaving a 600-acre wedge of flat, sandy Mexican land stranded on the Texas side (see map). Mexico still claimed the land, known as El Chamizal, but the U.S. said no: the border runs where the Rio Grande runs. In 1911, the angry Chamizal dispute was put to international arbitration. The arbitrators sided with
...owners and relocate the area's 3,750 residents. Railroads that run through El Chamizal will be rerouted farther north. The U.S. and Mexico will then split the expenses of building six new bridges and cutting a new, concrete-lined channel to prevent further disputes over the wandering Rio Grande. Total estimated cost to the U.S.: $28 million...