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...knotty problems of negotiating the renewal of a treaty for continued use of U.S. military bases in the Azores*and of smoothing out relations ruffled by U.S. support of U.N. anticolonial resolutions involving the Portuguese colony of Angola. To make way for Anderson, the present ambassador, C. Burke Elbrick, 55, a career diplomat who has held the Lisbon post since 1958, will be reassigned...
...greatest political crime of the century," declared one government-controlled newspaper. In the tidy way things are done in Salazar's Portugal, anonymous pamphlets appeared in Lisbon's cafes and stores announcing a demonstration the next day at the U.S. embassy. When U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick requested protection,, the police advised him that they would be powerless to stop the demonstrators, sent only a token force of 30 men. The government TV network dispatched a full set of TV cameras and crews...