Word: sao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a meeting with Costa Gomes, Pinheiro de Azevedo emerged visibly angered. Only the week before he−along with 150 members of the Constituent Assembly−had been imprisoned for 37 hours in Sao Bento Palace by a mob of 60,000 construction workers seeking a 30% pay rise. After the meeting with the President, he told reporters: "I am fed up with being held prisoner. It is time the President resolved this crisis...
Died. Ranieri Mazzilli, 65, Acting President of Brazil briefly during the 1960s; following surgery; in Sao Paulo. Mazzilli first occupied the presidential palace during a tense 1961 impasse (when conservative soldiers threatened to block the accession of Leftist Vice President Joào Goulart) helping to reconcile the conflict and avert civil war. He again served as President-for twelve days-following the 1964 overthrow of Goulart...
During the past 100 years Brazil's 29 rulers have included Portuguese monarchs, populist revolutionaries, fascist generals and moderate republicans. Regardless of era or ideology, all have faced a common adversary: O Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil's foremost newspaper. On a continent where journalistic rebels perish quickly and most surviving publications are servile in spirit, O Estado stands out as a durable, responsible independent. The paper so treasures its freedom that last month, on the 100th anniversary of its founding, it publicly still admitted to only 95 years of independent existence; the years 1940-45 are excluded...
...death in 1927, his son, Julio de Mesquita Filho, assumed control and battled Brazilian governments in the '30s and '40s. Twice Mesquita Filho was forced into exile. By 1964 he was back in Sao Paulo wielding political influence himself. He plotted with the military to overthrow leftist Joao Goulart, whom he suspected of heading toward totalitarianism. Once in power, however, the new rulers turned authoritarian, and O Estado again found itself in opposition...
...CHERRIE JR. Sao Paulo, Brazil...