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Even so, Galvâo's Anti-Totalitarian Front took the regime by surprise. Six of his agents hijacked a Portuguese airliner as it approached Lisbon from Casablanca, dumped thousands of anti-Salazar leaflets over the capital, then flew to Tangier. Had Galvao actually landed last week, he might have met little effective opposition. So suspicious of everyone is Salazar that his soldiers were issued machine guns without bolts and rifles without bullets; fighter planes were grounded with empty gas tanks. But the real threat to the regime came from what, in the world's most durable dictatorship...
...last month the noise started all over again: Catholics, Liberals, and Socialists joined in a bizarre opposition coalition. Last week, frustrated, divided, and harrassed, some 58 candidates withdrew their names. A former associate of the opposition, Henrique Galvao, was more successful. He established himself again as the most extraordinary adventurer of the times by organizing from his headquarters in Morocco the hijacking of a Portuguese airliner to drop boycott appeals all over the countryside...
Galvão ordered the Santa Maria to change course and turn east toward St. Lucia, one of Britain's Windward Islands. At 10 a.m. Galvao summoned the passengers to the tapestried first-class lounge, where the seizure was explained in Portuguese and Spanish, with an English resumé added for the benefit of 38 U.S. tourists...
...liner, carrying 950 passengers and crewmen, was seized as a protest against the Portuguese dictatorship of Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, according to a message radioed by Galvao to newspapers all over the world. It was "a political action foreseen in the international maritime laws," Galvao declared. This is his fourth attempt to overthrow Premier Salazar's government...
Albion noted the possibility that Galvao may try to land the passengers in Brazil, where Gen. Humberto Delgado, and exiled Portuguese political leader, has taken refuge. Delgado revealed last night that the rebels acted under his authority and warned that the ship will resist if attacked...