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...trouble with General Humberto Delgado was that he was not following the script. Gesticulating wildly, he told a crowd of 2,000 in a Lisbon high school that he stood for "the persecuted intellectuals, the university graduates without means of work, the abandoned artists, the writers intimidated by the censor, the technicians denied the possibility of giving their best, the muzzled journalists -in fact, all that in other countries represents a true level of culture...
...crowd roared back: "Humberto! Humberto! Humberto...
...candidates for this year's presidential election, scheduled for June 8, are Salazar's man, Admiral Americo Tomas, who is not even bothering to campaign, a left-wing lawyer named Arlindo Vicente, and the rule-breaking Humberto Delgado. An Air Force general who long and loyally served the regime ("A government of tyranny. I know. I was in it for 30 years"), Delgado, 52, spent the last five years in the U.S. as Portuguese Military Representative to NATO. His handshaking, baby-kissing tactics may result from his having witnessed two U.S. presidential elections, but his tubthumping, demagogic oratory...
...Menace. General Humberto Delgado's old friends in the government now view him as "slightly mad" and "over-ambitious." Salazar's National Union Party, unable to pin the Communist label on a career officer, has instead called Delgado "a public menace...
...Argentina's money in his fumbling attempts. ¶ Jorge Antonio, Mercedes-Benz tycoon and Perón crony, profiteered on so vast a scale that a subcommittee named exclusively to investigate him seriously recommended a fine of more than $1 billion. ¶ Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina got from Perón 265 car import licenses, each worth more than $5,000. Army Minister Franklin Lucero...