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...week after the army coup that ousted a dictatorship of almost half a century, Portugal was still in a festive, holiday mood, still celebrating the sudden, surprising gift of freedom. At Portela Airport outside Lisbon, nearly every plane brought in a new group of exiles, many of whom had not been home for years. Red carnations, the popular insignia of the April 25th revolution, sprouted from buttonholes and blouses everywhere...
There's a saying current in some parts of the world: scratch a liberal and find a fascist. The saying finds support in the activities of people like Premier Marcos of the Philippines, elected with the help of a liberal American advertising firm only to clamp down a rigid dictatorship when democracy threatened to mean social change. But it's not supposed to find support in the United States itself...
...which military officers threw out a totalitarian regime and declared their intention to establish a democratic government-instead of vice versa. In time, the shock waves sent out by the coup may be felt more strongly in Africa than in Lisbon itself, and the end of the Lisbon dictatorship signaled profound changes for Portugal's vast colonial holdings, the first-and the last-great European empire...
...told, it took only 14 hours to smash the dictatorship established by Salazar 45 years ago and set the 8 million people of Portugal on what the army promised would be a new, democratic course. But it was not a quest for freedom that had motivated the rebels as much as the desire to stop the bloody and costly guerrilla war in the African colonies. The war consumed more than 40% of the nation's $1.3 billion annual budget, claimed the lives of some 250 Portuguese troops every year, and caused profound frustration in the army, which felt that...
...world, that May Day stands for. This is year when it's easy to lose sight of that vision--when it's all most people can do to fight a different vision, one of rigid totalitarian control like those of Chile's new and Portugal's's overthrown dictatorship, like (on a much smaller, milder, and more hesitant scale) the illegal tactics President Nixon liked to avail himself of. May Day is especially important this year, because it reminds is that we are after something more...