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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist Party headquarters in the north. They are infuriated by the way the Communists have tried to seize national power despite their poor performance in the elections. In Rio Maior, furniture was tossed from the party headquarters' windows, doused with whiskey, and set aflame; at Vale de Cambra, a Molotov cocktail reduced the headquarters to a shambles of broken glass, ashes and charred posters. A Communist Party member in Estarreja who strayed too near a crowd trashing the headquarters was so badly beaten he was hospitalized; at Aveiro, a soldier was killed (accidentally by a fellow soldier) while protecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Drawing the Battle Lines | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

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