Word: tagus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name means "beyond the Tagus"-alem do Tejo-and dates from the 1200s when the Moors occupied the territory south of the Tagus River...
...Communist Party's strongest following has traditionally been in the impoverished Alentejo region south of the Tagus River, an area of huge farms owned by absentee landlords. There, tenant sharecroppers and migrant workers barely subsisted producing cork, olives, a few pigs and some wheat. Laborers frequently went hungry in the midst of unworked estates that had been turned into private hunting preserves...
...month in the northwestern city of Oporto when thousands of leftists besieged a congress of the conservative Center Social Democratic Party and paratroopers had to be called in. The Communists are the party most likely to run into campaigning difficulties. They have no problems in areas south of the Tagus River, where the people are generally anticlerical. Things are different in northern Portugal, a closed, quasi-medieval society, where the Roman Catholic Church is strong, priests tend to be reactionary, and typical graffiti are likely to be something along the order of Queremos a Deus (We love God). Priests have...
After two days of consultation and debate in the restored 19th century Palacio da Ajuda overlooking the estuary of the Tagus River, the NATO ministers settled upon an answer. With the notable exception of France, which still refuses to cooperate in NATO's military activities, the 14 remaining ministers agreed to consider test-tasting the Kremlin vintage. The ministers, who first proposed the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) during their 1968 Reykjavik meeting, set up a two-step exploratory phase...