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Although the government has sought to exhibit an air of calm about recent events in Portugal, there is no question that it is extremely concerned about the centrifugal pull the Portuguese revolution could have on Spain. The regime's response has been to clamp down even more. Says one leading Socialist: "The Old Guard is praying desperately that the Portuguese revolution will fail. Although the government is saying nothing, we know many of its members are secretly delighted that Portugal seems to be moving to a military dictatorship of the left. This is bad news...
...police were not amused. In an effort to make a clean sweep of the cluttered airways, 1,000 amateur Donetsk broadcasters-called "organ grinders" by the police-were arrested and fined 50 rubles ($69) for "violating rules governing the use of radio frequencies." There have been similar efforts to clamp down on underground broadcasts in other major cities...
...twelve months. Earlier, the President had urged Congress to make available only $3 billion to federal agencies that in effect lend the money to home buyers at below-market interest rates. Some builders have talked themselves into believing that once the elections are over, the Administration will move to clamp controls on construction wages and the prices of building materials, despite the President's oft-stated opposition to wage-price controls of any kind...
...their fast, their sister Clare reported that they weighed less than 98 Ibs. each, that their skin had turned waxen, their hair was falling out and their mouths were covered with sores. The prison dentist confirmed that the sisters' teeth had been loosened under pressure from the mouth clamp. Last month, after doctors had said that the girls would probably die sooner from continued force-feeding than from fasting, officials halted the procedure...
...Continent-wide banking panic. Even if that is avoided, the most strapped nations will be sorely tempted to cut their imports of nonpetroleum goods so that they can save cash to pay for the oil, a strategy that could cripple world trade. Italy in April did in fact clamp restrictions on many non-oil imports, to the anger of its eight partners in the European Common Market, who fortunately did not follow suit...