Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosa Parks returned last weekend to Montgomery from Detroit, where she now lives, to take part in a 20th anniversary celebration. The buses were once again not running - for a different reason. The black bus drivers - not al lowed behind the wheel 20 years ago - had joined in a strike for higher wages...
Twenty years ago last week, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Ala. "My only concern," she recalls, "was to get home after a hard day's work." When the driver ordered her to give up her seat to a white who was standing, she refused. From that spontaneous act of defiance sprang the boy cott of the Montgomery bus system, the leadership of Martin Luther King and, it can be said, the civil rights movement...
...show that it was in full control. Moderates on the Revolutionary Council finally ousted General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the Castro-admiring military-security chief, and sent home the security police. Army Chief of Staff General Carlos Fabião, Navy Chief Armando Filgueiras Scares and Admiral Antonio Rosa Coutinho ("Red Rosa") were also forced to resign for supporting the radicals...
Dorothy L. Olaechea Santa Rosa, Calif...
...that agreed to grant Angola independence. Few differentiate between Communists, Socialists and other left-wing parties in Portugal. Luis Galvào Lopes, 39, formerly an Angolan office worker, spoke for many refugees last week when he cursed the former Portuguese high commissioner for Angola, Admiral António Rosa Coutinho, calling him "Red Rosa" and the carrasco (executioner) of the refugees. What about a moderate like Socialist Leader Mário Scares? "The garbage is all the same," he answered...