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...with the action in India, which is at least a temporary demise of democracy, it makes the United States the largest democratic nation in the world. The fact that we are a minority, I mean the democratic nations being a minority, does not destroy my total faith in that system of government...
Rival sound trucks blared abusive slogans at one another and hostile crowds poured into the streets of Portuguese cities as the confrontation between moderates and Communists intensified late last week. In Oporto, the country's second largest city, 75,000 Socialists rallied to proclaim their support of democracy. Communist roadblocks of barbed wire and nail-studded planks failed to prevent the mass gathering. Meanwhile, about 35 miles north of Lisbon, angry mobs sacked the offices and burned the files of the Communist Party in both Lourinhà and Cadaval. At week's end, amid rumors of an impending...
...political turmoil. Now falling at the rate of $100 million per month, Portugal's foreign-currency reserves will be exhausted by the end of the year. Although Lisbon could then draw upon its huge gold stocks-worth $5 billion at current market prices, making it the eighth largest hoard in the world-any significant sale of bullion would likely be politically explosive. The ordinary Portuguese, a notorious gold bug, would rightly regard the sale as an act of desperation...
...badly crippled output. They have arbitrarily called strikes and in the fanatic saneamento (literally, "cleaning up") campaign, have purged from their plants all those accused of the undefined crime of "economic sabotage." Managers have been so harassed that many have abandoned their companies. Laborers at Lisnave, Europe's largest dry dock, have reduced work hours so much that 50% has been added to the lay-up time for ships. The nationalization of all the country's banks, insurance companies and half of its industries has brought foreign investment to a halt, even though foreign assets have been exempted...
...week's end Portuguese officials estimated that 300 had died and 1,000 had been wounded in six days of heavy fighting. So far, more than 3,000 people have been killed since Portugal announced last year that it would grant independence to Angola. The largest and richest of Lisbon's African territories and the only one still to be freed, Angola is due to become independent in November following elections to choose a representative government...