Word: spinola
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came to an end last week, Rassias said his pupils were midway between fluency and total ignorance of the language. Their ability to communicate got higher marks. The officers' Spanish grammar isn't perfect, and their vocabulary totals only some 1,000 words, but as Sergeant Edward Spinola, 39, explains: "I can communicate, where before I was totally lost." That is good enough for Transit Police Chief Sanford Garelik, who said last week that he was looking for funds for more Rassias-style training in languages besides Spanish that have become native to New York City-including Greek...
...fact, Eanes no longer wears his ominously familiar shades these days, but there are nonetheless several points to the quip. One is that Eanes (rhymes with Janice) is now the overwhelming favorite to become the country's next President, a post held by monocled General Antonio de 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...
...like him than because they fear the alternatives. A stern, aloof, ramrod-stiff disciplinarian, Eanes served in all three of Portugal's former African territories, joined the 1973 so-called "captains' revolt" against Lisbon's effort to contain the black struggle for independence, and actively supported Spinola at the time of the April revolution. Eanes is credited with lancing the rebellion last November that nearly led to a leftist dictatorship...
...Diez had openly advocated that the government ease its repression of dissidents and he was also being likened to António de Spínola, the Portuguese general who played a key part in toppling the fascist dictatorship in Lisbon. Anonymous senders even began mailing Diez Alegria monocles-Spinola's hallmark...
...horizon of Portugal's present looms Chile's past. The spectre of counterrevolution is forming: Spinola, bearer of rightist hopes, has temporarily left his Brazilian facist friends for Paris, only a train ride away; the exile "Portugese Liberation Army" masses on the Spanish border, funded by Portugese capital and very possibly, by the CIA. Encouraged by the Church's warnings of impending (and factually non-existent) land collectivization, small-holding peasants burn Communist headquarters and attack the revolution's supporters...