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...times, in fact, it seems that he has not. This week voters in Europe's poorest and most calcified country went to the polls in what Salazar's successor, Premier Marcello Caetano, 63, billed as a "free election." Despite some liberalization of Portugal's election laws, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. Though a few opposition candidates had a chance of winning places in the National Assembly for the first time, it was inconceivable that Salazar's old National Union would lose more than half a dozen of its 130 Assembly seats, if that many...
...imposing self, raising his right hand in a characteristic gesture. Later he appeared on television, and in a pathetically feeble voice thanked the nation for its concern for his welfare. No one has yet told him that he is no longer Premier; he was replaced last September by Marcello Caetano, and he rejects even the gentler suggestion that he should think about retiring. "I cannot go," he recently told his housekeeper. "There is no one else...
...blood clot on his brain a few weeks later, he sank into a coma that kept him near death. His government stood by uneasily, waiting for his recovery. By September, the medical prognosis was that he would never be able to resume his duties, and Lawyer Marcello Caetano became Premier...
...Caetano's colonial policy means, of course, that Portugal will continue to lack the funds at home to undertake much-needed public works and industrialization. Similarly, the repressive overseas policy impedes progress toward liberalization at home. At the same time, Caetano, who already has allowed the return from exile of Salazar's most prominent political enemy, Lawyer Mario Scares, and eased the press censorship somewhat, pledged that he would submit specific reform bills to the National Assembly before its present term ends next April. Portuguese liberals want Caetano to abolish all forms of censorship, guarantee civil rights...
...Though Caetano was silent about the contents of his bills, he was remarkably candid about the pressures that he faces from Portugal's archconservative military and landowners on one side and the restless liberals on the other. "We have sought to create a political climate free from hatred or retaliations that will permit normal relations between those who profess different opinions," said Caetano...