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...Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan and Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers (TIME, Oct. 7) were widely reported and analyzed by the French radio and press. Such scrutiny is partly due to the inaccessibility of foreign leaders. And, as Correspondent Gavin Scott, who talked with President Francisco da Costa Gomes for World's story on Portugal notes: "No national leader chats with journalists for desultory and innocuous reasons. All have a message to convey, and often they see TIME as their vehicle...
...faced "anarchy, crisis and chaos." His successors have gone out of their way to declare that though Portugal is steering a leftist course, it will not go Communist and will continue to honor its commitments to the Western alliance. To allay fears, Portugal's new President, Francisco da Costa Gomes, flew to the U.S. last week to meet President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He also addressed the U.N. General Assembly...
...April coup and resigned as provisional President. In an emotional farewell address on television, Spínola criticized many of the government's policies and warned that they would result in economic chaos, anarchy and "new forms of slavery." He was immediately replaced by General Francisco da Costa Gomes, 60, an old friend and the second-ranking member of the ruling junta...
Foreign observers believe that the new team of Costa Gomes and Gonçalves will be a workable one. A career officer, Costa Gomes earned his stars in the African theater where, like Spínola, he came to oppose Portugal's colonial wars. When Spínola brought out his controversial book criticizing Portuguese colonial policy last February, Costa Gomes, who was then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Caetano regime, supported his deputy; both were ousted from their posts. His following in the military is said to be as large and as loyal...
...Daughter of the Regiment stands somewhere in that middle ground. In the Wolf Trap production, which has a splendid supporting cast (notably Tenor William McDonald, Bass Spiro Malas, Mezzo Muriel Costa-Greenspun) and is crisply conducted by Charles Wendelken-Wilson, Sills plays Maria, a lowly orphan girl who has been adopted and reared by a regiment of Napoleon's soldiers in the Austrian Tyrol. The love of her life, Tonio, a young peasant who wears short pants and sings a high C at any sign of affection, joins the troop to be near her-alas, just as Marie...