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...their poor performance in the elections. In Rio Maior, furniture was tossed from the party headquarters' windows, doused with whiskey, and set aflame; at Vale de Cambra, a Molotov cocktail reduced the headquarters to a shambles of broken glass, ashes and charred posters. A Communist Party member in Estarreja who strayed too near a crowd trashing the headquarters was so badly beaten he was hospitalized; at Aveiro, a soldier was killed (accidentally by a fellow soldier) while protecting the headquarters from townspeople who were pelting the building with cobblestones. Angered by onesided reporting in the Communist-controlled press, demonstrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Drawing the Battle Lines | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

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