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...trouble with General Humberto Delgado was that he was not following the script. Gesticulating wildly, he told a crowd of 2,000 in a Lisbon high school that he stood for "the persecuted intellectuals, the university graduates without means of work, the abandoned artists, the writers intimidated by the censor, the technicians denied the possibility of giving their best, the muzzled journalists -in fact, all that in other countries represents a true level of culture...
...present government," shouted Delgado, "we repeat what we said in Oporto: 'We're tired of you, we're tired. Get out, get out-retire, retire...
...jubilant crowd poured from the high school into Fontana Square, scarcely 50 yards from the U.S. embassy, greyclad Republican Guards on horseback charged with flashing sabers. Shots rang out; stones were flung; 50 people were injured. In Delgado's lusty campaigning last week. Portugal saw more mob violence and bloodshed than in all the previous 25 years of the paternal dictatorship of scholarly Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
...rising. McKeon stepped from the mudbank into the chill (58°) water and turned upstream, hugging the shoreline. Turning, he called out: "Everybody O.K.?" Behind him, the marching column was floundering. Again he shouted: "Everybody O.K.?" The answer came loud: "No!" Men were deep in the mud; Recruit Raymond Delgado yelled that he was up to his chest in the muck. McKeon turned to Recruit John Michael Maloof and ordered: "Go help them out." Replied Maloof: "O.K., but let me have your stick." Using McKeon's broomstick, Maloof pulled Delgado...
...Inadmissible . . ." Betancourt became President, taking Major Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, who had played a key role in the army revolt, as his War Minister. Under Betancourt, A.D. wrote a constitution that guaranteed every civil right the party could think of. A.D. encouraged unions. It gave Venezuela its first free and universal presidential election, with the party's candidate, Novelist (Doña Barbara) Rómulo Gallegos, winning three to one. Most important, A.D. worked out and ratified the historic 50-50 contract with the oil companies-the golden rule that was later to benefit no one more than...