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...regime of Marcello Caetano on April 25,1974, Portugal's newly freed press was unanimous in support of the new government. That admiration became dutiful, if not downright slavish, after the government last March nationalized the banks that controlled all of Lisbon's seven dailies. A notable holdout, the Socialist República, finally fell into line following a takeover by the Communist-dominated printers' union, backed by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. Since then, though, several newspapers have openly irritated the government by publishing contentious statements from Portugal's rival military factions and ignoring official...
...emergency Cabinet meeting, Healey presented a proposal for a wage-restraint policy backed by legal sanctions. Instead of waiting to hear the consensus of his Cabinet as he usually does, Wilson promptly backed Healey. He won the decisive approval of the Cabinet. The only holdout was Employment Minister Michael Foot, the silver-tongued tribune of the unions. Foot was given a face-saving week to try to obtain union agreement. But the Cabinet made it clear that the proposal would be introduced in Parliament whether or not the union leaders accepted...
Gunfire Exchanges. Outside Saigon, the Communists also have problems. A Tass dispatch from South Viet Nam last week confirmed that there have been frequent exchanges of gunfire a few miles north of Saigon between Communist troops and holdout ARVN units. This last-ditch resistance is likely to be short-lived; one member of an anti-Communist army group, in a letter to his family in Saigon, conceded that "we know we have no chance of winning, but we will fight anyway...
Belgium had been the holdout in a NATO consortium that also includes Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands. Once the Belgians decided, General Dynamics was assured of sales to the four countries of 348 planes worth $2.1 billion. That will be in addition to the 650 F-16s already ordered by the U.S. Air Force as its new generation of fighters for the 1980s. General Dynamics estimated that the 998-plane sale could create 40,000 jobs in the U.S., plus thousands more in the four NATO countries, which will share in production...
...extension of the Soviet Zone of Occupation. Then five years ago, Chancellor Willy Brandt relaxed Bonn's opposition to the East Berlin regime, and the G.D.R. began its long journey in from the cold. Nation after nation accorded it formal recognition, until last week the most important holdout fell into line. In a three-minute ceremony in Washington, the U.S. became the 110th country to establish diplomatic relations with the G.D.R...