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	Brazil - MSN Encarta
		Figueiredo’s presidency began in 1979 by furthering abertura with the declaration of a general amnesty for all political crimes since 1964.
		Figueiredo released the last few political prisoners, and official censors finally left the pressrooms and television studios.
		The Figueiredo government also issued guidelines for the formation of new political parties and for open election of governors in 1982.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554342_14/Brazil.html (1561 words)

	FIGUEIREDO, João Baptista de Oliveira @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
		João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo was the son of General Euclides de Oliveira Figueiredo, who was exiled after an attempt to topple a dictatorship in 1932.
		When General Emílio Médici assumed the presidency, Figueiredo was appointed head of the president's military staff (30 Oct 1969 - 15 Mar 1974).
		The Figueiredo administration dissolved the government-controlled National Renewal Alliance Party (Aliança Renovadora Nacional [Arena]) and allowed new parties to be formed.
	www.archontology.org /nations/braz/braz_rep3/figueiredo.php (544 words)

	Brazil - BRAZZIL - Joao Baptista Figueiredo, the Last Dictator, Dies - Brazilian History - December 1999
		His father, Euclides de Oliveira Figueiredo, was the troops commander during the 1932 Revolução Constitucionalista, the failed São Paulo state insurrection against the Getúlio Vargas provisional government.
		It was Figueiredo who signed August 28, 1979, the Lei da Anistia (Amnesty Law), which reopened Brazil's door to thousands of Brazilians who had lost their political rights and had been jailed, banned and exiled.
		In the end, even his wife avoided talking to him, sleeping when he was awake and taking walks in the dark night, so as not to wake up her husband and have to carry on a conversation with him.
	www.brazil-brasil.com /p06dec99.htm (1632 words)

	Amazon Trips, Presidente Figueiredo Amazonas Brasilien, Jungle Trips Manaus, Ecoturism Brazil Amazonas, Brazilian ...
		Located 107 Km north of Manaus, this piece of Amazon's paradise occupies an area of 24.781 km² distributed among ecological and Indian reserves, mining, an hydroelectric Dam and the exuberant forest where nature was generous to the rivers, "igapós" and the fantastic waterfalls.
		Balbina Lake appears after the Hydroelectric Dam was built in the city of Presidente Figueiredo, 180 km from Manaus, on the bank of the Uatumã River, a tributary of the Amazon River.
		Departing from Manaus to President Figueiredo in van with air-conditioning, visiting the waterfall of Asframa, the caverne of Maruaga and the waterfall Santuário.
	www.braziliansafaris.com /presidente_figueiredo.htm (388 words)

	Figueiredo, Joao Baptista de Oliveira -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Figueiredo, Joao Baptista de Oliveira -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Figueiredo entered military school at age 10 and spent part of his youth in Argentina; his father, Gen. Euclydes Figueiredo, went there in exile after an attempt to topple a dictatorship…
		Figueiredo entered military school at age 10 and spent part of his youth in Argentina; his father, Gen. Euclydes Figueiredo, went there in exile after an...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9342296 (733 words)

	Amazonas by Viverde - Presidente Figueiredo City
		The Municipal Center of Presidente Figueiredo was founded in 1981 and was named after the first president of the province of Amazonas, João Baptista de Figueiredo Tenreiro Aranha (1798-1861).
		appears after the Hydroelectric Dam was built in the city of Presidente Figueiredo, 180 km from Manaus, on the bank of the Uatumã River, a tributary of the Amazon River.
		The city of Presidente Figueiredo is situated 60 º west of the Greenwich meridian with altitude of 50m.
	www.viverde.com.br /figueiredo_i.html (647 words)

	Slow, Gradual \| TIME
		Figueiredo immediately extended —perhaps thrust was a better word—an olive branch toward those who had opposed his candidacy.
		Figueiredo has promised "a slow and gradual" return to more democracy in Brazil—as long, it was clearly implied, as his countrymen continue to behave themselves.
		Figueiredo has pledged to follow his predecessors' domestic and international policies—meaning, among other things, that there will be no drastic changes in the country's economic model.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,912217,00.html (637 words)

	Amazonas by Viverde - Presidente Figueiredo Waterfalls
		Presidente Figueiredo City, the scenery of adventure and ecological tourism, opens its gates for you.
		Figueiredo City), caves, grottos, lakes, rivers, small creeks (igaparés) and many waterfalls and rapids.
		In Presidente Figueiredo, we visit the Ecological Reserve of Iracema and rapid of Urubuí.
	www.amazonastravel.com.br /waterfalls.html (301 words)

	Presidente Figueiredo
		Created on December 10, 1981, President Figueiredo received this name in honor to the first President of the Province of Amazon: João Baptista de Figueiredo Tenreiro Aranha.
		With a territory of the size of Holland, Presidente Figueiredo has more than 100 waterfalls inside of the Amazonian jungle.
		At some waterfalls of President Figueiredo you have to pay to visit.
	www.viagensmaneiras.com /viagens/presfigueiredoING.htm (522 words)

	Figueiredo - Research the news about Figueiredo - from HighBeam Research
		Figueiredo is a former athlete of Varzim of...
		Joao Baptista Figueiredo, the blunt spoken president who oversaw the...
		Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo was the fifth successive military president...
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	João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo - Encyclopedia.com
		Figueiredo, João Baptista de Oliveira, 1918-99, Brazilian general and politician, president of Brazil (1979-85).
		Author not available, FIGUEIREDO, JOÃO BAPTISTA DE OLIVEIRA.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Figueire.html (94 words)

	Presidente Figueiredo travel guide - Wikitravel
		Presidente Figueiredo is a city in Manaus region of Brazil.
		Presidente Figueiredo was founded with natural vocation for the tourism.
		The county of Presidente Figueiredo was bred em 1981 and receives this name em honor the first President from the Province of the Amazonas, João Baptista de Figueiredo Tenreiro Aranha (1798-1861).
	wikitravel.org /en/Presidente_Figueiredo (542 words)

	MIT Western Hemisphere Project: Right-Wing Terror in Brazil
		The larger objective is believed to be a halt in the gradual liberalization of the authoritarian pattern of rule that began when Gen. Ernesto Geisel was President from 1974 to 1979 and is continuing under his successor, Gen. Joao Baptista Figueiredo.
		The same leaflets, showing a newsboy, a pile of papers with a hammer and sickle on the cover and the legends of a dozen small weeklies and monthlies, have turned up at torched sites in six states, suggesting that the movement is being coordinated on a national scale.
		Leaders from President Figueiredo and his Cabinet officers to local mayors have been voluble in denouncing the onslaught, but this has not been matched by conclusive action.
	web.mit.edu /hemisphere/events/mnm03-1m/brazil-rwt.shtml (690 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Figueiredo,
		Figueiredo, JoÃ£o Baptista de Oliveira The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
		Brazil borders ten countries, has a coastline 7400 km (4600 miles) long, and straddles the equator from latitude 4° N to past latitude 33° S. Physical The whole of the northern region lies in the vast Amazon basin with its tributary rivers.
		Brazil : Figueiredo keeps the limit of SPB.
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	Columbia Encyclopedia- Figueiredo Joo Baptista de Oliveira - AOL Research & Learn
		Columbia Encyclopedia- Figueiredo Joo Baptista de Oliveira - AOL Research & Learn
		Figueiredo liberalized Brazil's military regime and moved the nation cautiously toward democracy.
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	Brazil and CIA
		Quadros' successor, Joao Goulart, whose political strength rested on the close ties he had fostered with the unions while Minister of Labor under Vargas, was to the left of the Brazilian political spectrum.
		As Figueiredo took office on March 15, over 200,000 industrial workers were on strike in Sao Paulo demanding a wage hike of 78 percent to keep pace with Brazil's astronomical rate of inflation, up 44 percent over last year.
		Although Inaco has denied that the strike was called to test the promised liberalization of the Figueiredo regime, the manner in which it was dealt with makes clear the government's intolerance of even legal opposition.
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	Brazil
		His son declared Brazil's independence on September 7, 1822, and became emperor with the title of Dom Pedro I. His son, Dom Pedro II, ruled from 1831 to 1889, when a federal republic was established in a coup by Deodoro da Fonseca, marshal of the army.
		Geisel began a liberalization which was carried further by his successor, Gen. Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo (1979-85).
		Figueiredo not only permitted the return of politicians exiled or banned from political activity during the 1960s and 1970s, but also allowed them to run for state and federal offices in 1982.
	www.onlinelearning.net /instructors/smurr/LatAm/sam/brazil.html (15997 words)

	AllRefer.com - JoAo Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo (Brazilian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		JoAo Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, Brazilian History, Biographies
		JoAo Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo[fEgArAdO] Pronunciation Key, 1918–99, Brazilian general and politician, president of Brazil (1979–85).
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	Chapter 6. Government Instability (1930-present)
		The death of a fl worker at the hands of the police and the expulsion of four fl boys from a volleyball team furnished the spark that led to the formation of the Unified Black Movement Against Racial Discrimination.
		In 1979,João Baptista Figueiredo (hand-picked by Geisel) was inaugurated President.
		Figueiredo maintained a steady hand on the opening process.
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	Comemorations and Veterans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Between the 67 womens who had participated of the war, Major Elza is the only that continues in activity.
		She was secretary of ex-president dictator João Baptista Figueiredo, her relative.
		She does not have shame of support iron-fist policy of old military regime."Im totally anti-comunist", said her.
	feb-army.tripod.com /veterans.htm (180 words)

	Presidente Figueiredo waterfalls - 3 Days and 2 Nights \| Presidente Figueiredo waterfalls \| Amazon forest \| Aldeia dos ...
		Day 1: Departing from Manaus to President Figueiredo in car with air-conditioning, visiting the waterfall of Orchid.
		Return to Presidente Figueiredo, dinner at Cachoeira restaurant and overnight at Cuca Legal inn.
		Day 3: Breakfast and departure for motorized canoe ride and walking in the trails of the forest up to Natal waterfall and rapids of the Branquinho river.
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	Schiller Institute Releases Emergency Appeal to President Clinton: Convoke a New Bretton Woods Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The appeal has been signed by hundreds of world leaders, including Gen. (ret.) Joao Baptista Figueiredo, former President of Brazil (1979-1985), Godfrey Binaisa, former President of Uganda (1979-1980), and Dr. Jozef Miklosko, former Vice Prime Minister of post-communist Czechoslovakia.
		Europe: 70 current and former members of parliament from eight nations, including Russia, Poland, Italy, Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Croatia; dozens of economists and scientists from Europe's leading academic institutions; German and Polish trade union leaders; and leaders of human rights organizations from several Eastern European nations.
		Ibero-America: In addition to former Brazilian President Gen. (ret.) Joao Baptista Figueiredo, 29 current and former members of Congress, from ten nations, have signed the appeal, including representatives from Argentina, Bermuda, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Tobago, and Venezuela.
	www.larouchepub.com /pr/1997/schiller_pr_04-22-97.html (420 words)

	[CTRL] Fwd: [Spy News] FW: Brazil and CIA
		Imperialism's Internal Allies: Brazil's National Enemies In the fall of 1961, just as Joao Goulart was assuming the presidency, the United States began to make contact with his right-wing opposition.
		In a recent visit to Brazil, Vice President Mondale backed away from criticizing the country's plans to build a uranium reprocessing plant capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium.89 As for Brazil's new president, Joao Baptista Figueiredo, and what lies in store for the Brazilian people, a few words must be said.
		He guaranteed freedom of expression for the "many segments of Brazilian public opinion."90 But for those who have even the slightest familiarity with the man who is Brazil's fifth military head of state since the armed forces carried out a CIA-backed coup in 1964, Joao Baptista Figueiredo is to be watched closely.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg98741.html (8116 words)

	Revista/Review Interamericana: Volumen 29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		General João Baptista Figueiredo, the Brazilian president (1979-1985), made sure that Burnham's journey to the Palácio de Planalto proved profitable.
		General Figueiredo passed the presidential sash to a civilian politician, José Sarney, in March 1985.
		President Figueiredo and Foreign Minister Saraiva Guerreiro, according to one Latin American source, "obtained important victories in the diplomatic field" during the course of long conversations with Bouterse's emissaries.
	www.sg.inter.edu /revista-ciscla/volume29/ely.html (8784 words)

	The Fall of General Stroessner
		He couldn't compare with Pinochet or Galtieri; he didn't eat his enemies, as Bokassa and Idi Amin did.
		I saw him only once, in 1979, at the inauguration of Joao Baptista Figueiredo, the penultimate president of Brazil.
		His face-the thin mustache, the full, sensual lower lip drooping slightly below the lower teeth, the steady, piercing dark eyes-was unmistakably German.
	www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com /dispatch28/d28_2.html (1655 words)

	4 LATIN CHIEFS JOIN IN DEBT WARNING - Free Preview - The New York Times
		DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - The presidents of four Latin American countries, citing rising international interest rates, have warned in a joint statement that they will not be forced into insolvency by their foreign debts.
		The four - Raul Alfonsin of Argentina, Joao Baptista Figueiredo of Brazil, Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico and...
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	Stupid Quotes - III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I intend to open this country up to democracy, and anyone who is against that, I will jail.
		- General Joao Baptista Figueiredo, president - Brazil, 1979
		Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses.
	www.qis.net /~jimjr/one136.htm (351 words)

	Final Project Design Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Objective: To create a website that functions as a general resource for visitors interested in Tropicalia—a late-'60s/early-'70s musical movement that combined North American rock, blues, jazz, folk and psychedelic music with Brazilian and other Latin American styles.
		The music was closely linked to the political movement that was organized to subvert the military dictatorship of João Baptista Figueiredo, whose group had taken over the country in 1964.
		The site will offer both a brief outline of the music and movement and provide additional descriptions of web resources, articles, and books.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~mdm44/assignment2.htm (269 words)

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