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...march of 60,000 construction workers on Lisbon's São Bento Palace last week started out like the countless other protest parades and rallies that are a recurring feature of life in Portugal these days. But then the leftist-led hardhats added a new twist. Massing on the steps of the legislative palace, they blocked the doors of the building in which 150 members of the constituent assembly were laboring over a new constitution. They also backed huge trucks against the entrances to Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo's official residence next door and warned that...
...hands and peasant features, Pinheiro de Azevedo, 58, does not much like the nickname but concedes: "In some ways it is correct because when I have a decision in my head, I put it into action immediately. " Last week, at his office in Lisbon 's São Bento palace, Pinheiro de Azevedo talked candidly about some of the decisions he faces with TIME Correspondent George Taber. It was the first interview that the Premier has given to an American journalist. Excerpts from the conversation...
...represent those interests energetically, indeed relentlessly. Both admirers and detractors agree that Gonçalves is consumed by his work. He is known as "the man who never sleeps," perhaps as much for his insomnia as his administrative zeal. At his office in the São Bento Palace, he drives his staff relentlessly and has a reputation for exploding in anger when dissatisfied with its work -although he is regarded as a somewhat slapdash executive himself. Devoted to his family (two children), Gonçalves relaxes by swimming at the deserted, rocky Guincho Beach on the Atlantic coast, where...
...most fervent proponent. Probably the hardest-working man in the government (friends call inm "the man who never sleeps") and studiously intellectual, he is dedicated to revamping the economic and social structure of ins country. Goncalves talked at ins official residence on the grounds of Sāo Bento Palace, the large winte villa where the late dictator Antonio Salazar lived. In conversation, he displays flashes of humor and strong passion...
Last week Salazar, 79, and ruler of his country for nearly 40 years, returned from the hospital to his residence in Lisbon's São Bento Palace. There were no stately ceremonies, no cheering throngs. Instead, he arrived unheralded in a police ambulance, to be greeted by two of his old aides. Salazar himself, still partially paralyzed and suffering from seriously impaired speech and perception, is not yet aware that he was replaced as Premier. For his homecoming, the stricken old statesman needed only one piece of luggage: an ancient suitcase, which he is said to have carried...