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and later, she showed a particular interest in stories that revealed the violence suffered by women, children and the elderly. Three months after joining she was awarded a prize for an article about alcoholic wives, buying a television with the prize money. Her forensic approach to journalism made
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with him in prison because she was not his wife, and so she convinced him when he was released that they should get married in case he was arrested again. She gave birth to their only daughter, Isabel dos Santos da Costa, in 1957. Palla supported the 1958 presidential campaign of the pro-American
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in the country, by promoting the practice in interviews and television programmes. In 2004 Palla was awarded the title of
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her claim that had she not been a journalist she would have been a member of
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