Word: barroso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most startling move was permitting Dr. Mario Soares to return from exile. A lawyer and left-wing democrat, Soares was so persistent a foe of Dictator Salazar that he was jailed twelve times, mostly without trial or charges. His wife, Maria Barroso, one of Portugal's finest actresses, was dismissed from the national theater and could only perform with special government authorization. During his investigation of the mysterious 1965 murder of Humberto Delgado,* Soares publicly incriminated a member of the Portuguese secret police. Later, when Soares was unjustly suspected of feeding details to foreign newsmen about a teen...