Word: south
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General Médici is known as "a man of few smiles and friends." He won some key friends in 1964, when he gave major support to the coup that established Brazil's military rule. Raised in Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil's rugged cattle country, the new President is a compromise choice acceptable to both moderate officers and the linha dura -hardliners who would crack down even harder on dissent. Like most of his comrades-in-arms, he is convinced that only the military knows what is best for Brazil and its 90 million people. "There...
...James White remained free for three years. But he had to flee from Tangier, Spain, the south of France and three other hiding places as acquaintances discovered his identity and blackmailed him for a total of $162,400. White had to pay one landlord $2,800 a week in rent, and in the end still had to flee because the landlord informed on him to collect close to $100,000 in rewards. White was finally captured in 1966 at Littlestone-on-Sea in Kent. Noting that he was "at the end of my tether," he said thankfully that...
...Ronald Edwards lost so much to blackmailers that in 1966 his wife persuaded him to surrender. He was living what he described as "a crazy, unnatural life" in a grubby South London roominghouse and was, he told police, "flat broke...
...alleged to have been the "triggerman" in the recently dismissed Green Beret murder case in Viet Nam: Denise Marasco, 25; on grounds of incompatibility; after 6½ years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico. Two days later Marasco was critically injured in a traffic accident in South Amboy...
...General usually speaks for the U.S. It has been no easy job. In a friend of the court brief a respected group called the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law attacked Leonard's assertion that the division lacked "bodies and people" to enforce desegregation throughout the South this year. The committee, which includes former Justice Department Official John Doar (a Republican who headed Leonard's division with distinction under President Kennedy), promised to enlist enough volunteer attorneys, if need be, to finish the job for Leonard...