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...more than 40 years. "Este jornal nāo ė de Cunhal! [This paper is not Cunhal's]" the Socialists shouted. Several times paratroopers sent to guard the building fired shots into the air; the crowd responded by shouting, "Assassins!" Finally Minister of Social Communications Jorge Correia Jesuino, representing the 30-man Revolutionary Council that really governs Portugal, ordered the premises evacuated and referred the case to the courts. Whether the newspaper will be able to resume publication is in doubt...
With sly, leisurely humor, Novelist Amado records the stir made in Ilhéus as the fitful-sometimes barely perceptible -winds of progress blow. There is nothing that is not affected by modernism. Everyone is full of admiration when Colonel Jesuino Mendonga, after discovering his wife and his dentist in conversation (he in the nude, she wearing only a pair of long black stockings), shoots both of them. The colonel's conduct was impeccable under the ancient code for settling marital differences, and even liberals in Ilhéus are shocked when a court finds him guilty and sentences...