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Portugal. The outcry against Portuguese colonial policy in Africa continued last week, while the official news organs of dictator Marcello Caetano denying all allegations of atrocities. The week before, several thousand British demonstrators protested during a Caetano visit to England's Conservative prime minister Heath...
Then began the denials. Dr. Marcello Caetano, the Portuguese Prime Minister, who was on an official visit to London, said that his government's preliminary inquiry showed a massacre of 400 villagers "could not have taken place." A Catholic bishop in Mozambique who in published reports claimed that he had seen the dead bodies later stubbornly declined either to confirm or deny that there had been a massacre. In Lisbon, officials insisted that Wiriyamu did not even exist. Indeed, Father Hastings two weeks ago placed it in western central Mozambique, but next day corrected himself, saying...
...about "a woman's place" are so deeply ingrained that few women are even conscious of them. Yet when New Portuguese Letters came out in April 1972, one-third of the original printing of 3,000 copies was sold within a month. Then the regime of Premier Marcello Caetano cracked down. Officials invoked a new law that makes writers criminally responsible for their work if the censors, who render judgments only after publication, voice objections. Having brought charges against the three Marias, authorities then released them on bail of 15,000 escudos ($700) each. Their trial was originally...
...department spokesmen also reported that the British government acquiesced to the demands of Labor and Liberal Party members that they be allowed to debate Caetano in Parliament...
Early yesterday, the spokesman said that he had heard reports that Caetano might be "disinvited" by the British government, but Caetano arrived in London on schedule...