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...inexpensive international travel, extradition has become a common procedure. American officials are involved in more than 1,000 cases around the world, either seeking the return of suspects to the U.S. or responding to the requests of other nations. The U.S., for example, is expected to deport Hector Burgueno Fragoso to Mexico. He was found last week in Tucson, and is a prime suspect in the drug-related torture and slaying of twelve people just across the border. The extradition process is usually governed by individual treaties between countries, each with its own special provisions. The U.S. alone has signed...
...Helder an "agitator of men and ideas" and a "leftist"-and even accusing him of promoting the development of the rival Anglican Church. Cámara's response was to demand television time so that he and his bishops could prove they were not Communists. Snapped Bishop Antonio Fragoso of Crateus: "To think that the bishops who defend the peasants and workers against injustice are subversive is to play the obvious game of the Communists...
Died. Marshal Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, 81, Portugal's President since 1926; of uremia; in Lisbon. After 40 years in the army, he decided the Portuguese were incapable of governing themselves, had some evidence: 18 revolutions between 1910, when the last King gave up everything for an actress, and 192-6, when Carmona himself took over after a successful coup. He kept getting re-elected because Premier Salazar, Portugal's dictator, permitted no opposition...
Along Lisbon's sunny streets last week nearly all available space was filled with election posters. One bore the likeness of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...
...years, continued chaos resolved itself into a government shakeup, and mild, aristocratic General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona became President. This besashed and epauletted figurehead (still President in name today) made Salazar Minister of Finance, with extraordinary powers, which he used to make himself dictator of the nation...