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...wars' drain on their country-an estimated 300 killed annually and a continuing expenditure equivalent to 40% of Portugal's national budget. "The officers of the M.F.A. came to realize that they were sitting in Africa, living out their lives for the profit of the Estoril crowd back in Portugal," says Commander Jesuino. "I felt guilty about the role I was playing. We read the literature of the liberation groups we were fighting. We talked with prisoners. We read the doctrines of Che Guevara and Mao and so on-and we thought for ourselves...
...that attracted 60,000 people, whom Party Leader Mario Scares told: "We want to march in the direction of freedom." Tuesday night, the Popular Democrats, perhaps 5,000 in all, assembled in Lisbon's Sports Pavilion for what was more a bell-bottomed social occasion of the chic Estoril set than a serious political meeting. On Wednesday night, the Communists drew 60,000 in the May 1 Stadium. While vendors hawked red flags, buttons and pens, Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal intoned: "We Communists appeal to civic duty and order...
Almost all have given up hopes of returning. Don Juan and Umberto still hold shadow court in Portugal's Estoril, but more as a gesture to the past than a look to the future. Albania's Leka and Bulgaria's Simeon, on the other hand, still work for the day when their people will come to their senses and call them back. The only one who seems to have a real chance of resuming the kingly tradition, however, is Don Juan's son Prince Juan Carlos, who has been promised the Spanish throne on the death...
...state within Jordan's borders? Skeptics doubted that he would. "You're asking a King who's won a war over the guerrillas to sign away his victory," said a British official in London. Abdication? "I can't see him sunning his days away at Estoril with those other ex-kings," said the same official, "or living off a Swiss bank account for the rest of his life...
...forgiven the Pretender for a 1945 statement that disapproved of Franco's policies. Don Juan has been considerably less critical since then, but has kept in close touch with opposition circles in Spain from his court-in-exile at the Villa Giralda in the Portuguese coastal resort of Estoril. Many Spaniards consider Don Juan a moderate, even a liberal, who as constitutional monarch would probably not. go along with many authoritarian practices of the Franco...