Word: caetano
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...Antonio Salazar's life ticked away in a Lisbon clinic, his successor, Premier Marcello Caetano, was cautiously trying to revive the political life of Portugal that has been comatose for the past 40 years under Salazar...
...Caetano's partisans at first explained that the peculiar circumstances of Soares' release were caused by "the ghost of Salazar. Caetano cannot publicly announce Soares' return as long as Salazar lives. It is a question of respect." Yet a week later, the news got through the press censorship, which has become more liberal, if erratically so. Last week-only five months late-the Portuguese public was told that the accused murderer of Martin Luther King had been hiding out in Lisbon for nine days in May. Newspapers were being bought in record numbers just for the unaccustomed...
...long period, the country grew accustomed to being governed by a man of genius, but from now on it must adapt itself to being governed by men like other men." With those words, Marcello Caetano, a longtime associate of Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, last week became Premier of Portugal, ending 36 years of Salazar rule...
...coma for ten days, and his doctors had informed President Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomás that he would never recover sufficiently to resume office. Faced with a serious drift in government affairs and rumors that the military might step in, Tomás finally called on Caetano to form a government...
...Caetano, 62, is a Lisbon law professor and, like Salazar, he is conservative, correct and Catholic. As such, he is acceptable to Portugal's influential generals and businessmen. But in some respects, Caetano presents a sharp contrast to Salazar. He is married and has four grown children; the former Premier is a withdrawn, painfully austere bachelor. Salazar almost never journeyed beyond Portugal's borders and has equally circumscribed intellectual horizons; Caetano has traveled widely, speaks French, reads English and has a continuing interest in cultural and intellectual developments...