Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spinola until he was ousted by his fellow officers in a bloodless coup in September 1974. Another is that several key aides of the exiled right-wing general are involved in Eanes' campaign, which has been endorsed by the country's three largest parties: Mário Scares' Socialists, the Popular Democrats and the conservative Center Social Democrats...
Doctors on Loan. TIME'S Rio de Janeiro bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand visited Guyana last week and found no sign of any such occupying force. "Disregarding the 50 to 75 Cuban shrimp fishermen who use the capital as a port," he cabled, "they number barely more than the Americans. There are perhaps 20 diplomats and staff at the Cuban Embassy, ten language teachers, six doctors on loan, two or three staff members of Cubana Airlines and a team of technicians at an airport fuel depot...
...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...
With that in view, one recalls, E. Howard Hunt (Lars Haglund) once forged a cable linking Kennedy personally to the political murder of Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem. How much more convenient to revive a similar charge in fiction, transferring it to Rio de Muerte - and to imply that through a tortuous trail of Democratic cover-up and CIA blackmail, the road came back to Watergate. Timothy Foote
...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...