Word: ferrera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert M. Ferrera...
...Ferrera said he thought many Portuguese here accepted official "propaganda" that Portugal could not survive if its African colonies won complete independence. But he said few of them supported Caetano...
...There was no free speech, no free press--they brainwashed the Portuguese people," Ferrera explained. "But people were fed up of these things and of the war overseas--they talked about nationalism, patriotism, all this stuff, but soldiers would come home with no more legs...
...There were some priests in prison," Ferrera--who came to Cambridge from northern Portugal six months ago--continued. "There was a young priest, a nice priest, near my place where I came from, and he was put in prison merely for teaching the Gospel and when he preached about peace talking a little against the government because it was not following the Gospel...
...There has been unrest for a long time, more than ten years," Ferrera said. "Most people have felt for a long time that radical change was needed--one or two tell me, 'it is very good, and what was before was very good,' but in my opinion most people are happy...