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DIED. Marcello Caetano, 74, Prime Minister of Portugal for six years before being ousted by a military coup in 1974; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Appointed Prime Minister in 1968, when longtime Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was incapacitated by a stroke, Caetano made some abortive moves toward liberalization and tried vainly to preserve Portugal's eroding colonial empire by continuing costly wars hi Mozambique and Angola before his dismissal by the junta of General Antonio de Spinola...
...compromise that was Scares' trademark. Says Sá Carneiro: "This was the evil of the Socialist Party. They conciliated with us and the Communists. It does not work." As a member between 1969 and 1973 of the rubber-stamp parliament of the post-Salazar dictatorship led by Marcello Caetano, Sá Carneiro pressed for political liberalization, including curbs on the brutal secret police. After the revolution, he was made a Minister Without Portfolio, but he soon quit to form his own party, which opposed nationalization of banks and major industries. Last year he quit the Center Social Democrats when...
...historic event that sealed the fate of white Rhodesia and changed the life of every white man in Africa south of the Zambezi River was the Portuguese revolution in April 1974. The military coup against the Caetano government in Lisbon led the following year to the granting of independence to Mozambique and Angola ? something the old regime vowed would never happen. Before 1975, Mozambique and Angola were Portuguese colonies that served as bulwarks against the southward march of African nationalism; after 1975, their Marxist governments became directly involved in the black struggle to overthrow the remaining white minority regimes...
...which had suffered for 48 years under fascism. Fittingly, the song was the signal for those army officers--mainly captains and majors--committed to the cause of a socialist and democratic Portugal to take command of key military and government installations, and to overthrow the regime of President Marcello Caetano. "Grandola" was played and sung by the Portuguese many times in the days following the coup. It expressed better than any party or government's program the motives that impelled massive redistribution from big landowners to the laborers who worked the estates and that eventually brought about the nationalizations...
With balloting set for April 25, the second anniversary of the "revolution of flowers" that overturned the right-wing dictatorship of Marcello Caetano, no fewer than 14 political parties are competing for the 263 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. Apart from the radical fringe-Trotskyites and quasi anarchists on the left, monarchists on the right-it is not always easy to tell the parties apart. As one diplomat observed: "Socialism in its various forms, reverence to the Armed Forces Movement, the eradication of social injustice-those are like an American's apple...