Word: sao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in the comfortable Sao Paulo suburb of Brooklin, Brazilian plainclothes police, acting on information provided by Wiesenthal, picked up Stangl. He had just returned home from his mechanic's job at a Volkswagen plant, was relieved to discover that the cops were not Israeli agents, like the ones who had nabbed Adolf Eichmann. Said Stangl: "I knew I would be captured." Sighed his wife: "Franz was always an excellent head of the family, although a little too austere...
...church and has won 100 converts-that other ministers set up similar communities in Somerville, N.J., and Stamford, Conn. This year, the Churches of Christ plan to organize new congregations in Rochester, N.Y., Burlington, Mass., and Toronto, Canada. By 1968, they hope to ship a readymade congregation to Sao Paulo in Brazil...
...opposition M.D.B.-thus theoretically voting for or against President Humberto Castello Branco's brand of "revolution." Such is Brazilian politics today that a vote for a government candidate was not always a vote for the government. Some ARENA candidates openly proclaimed-their opposition to Castello Branco. In Sao Paulo, one ARENA campaigner pleaded for votes so that "I can oppose the government's policies from within." The opposition, far freer with its criticism, loudly blasted the diminutive ex-general for his "dictatorship...
...Blue Team near the downed choppers. Within hours, in fierce fighting, often in chest-deep water, the Blues had killed 91 of the enemy. Some 70 of them turned out to be from the Aircav's old foe in previous Binh Dinh battles: the North Vietnamese 610th Sao Vang (Yellow Star) Division. With the Sao Vang as quarry, Operation Washington Irving rapidly mounted in scale. A large force from South Korea's Capitol Division wheeled in from the south. A contingent of South Vietnamese troops rushed in from the west. Closing the vise, the 1st Cavalry bored...
...tours. About all he remembers of his formal education is that "I learned how to add and subtract and multiply." That apparently was enough. Today, at 65, Tjurs has gathered together Brazil's biggest hotel chain; among his six hotels are Rio's 220-room Excelsior Copacabana, Sao Paulo's 17-story Jaragua and the 420-room Nacionál in Brasilia. All of this grew from the time when, at age 40, he took the last $1,000 that he had salvaged from a bankrupt São Paulo saloon, invested it in a small hotel...