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...Antonio Salazar's life ticked away in a Lisbon clinic, his successor, Premier Marcello Caetano, was cautiously trying to revive the political life of Portugal that has been comatose for the past 40 years under Salazar...
Respectful Question. At government insistence, Soares' return was almost stealthy. At first, not a word appeared in press or radio, and his every move in Lisbon was under police surveillance. Soares himself had little to say, except: "I am planning now to resume fully my professional and political activities, but legally. You know my position: I have always worked within...
...question of respect." Yet a week later, the news got through the press censorship, which has become more liberal, if erratically so. Last week-only five months late-the Portuguese public was told that the accused murderer of Martin Luther King had been hiding out in Lisbon for nine days in May. Newspapers were being bought in record numbers just for the unaccustomed pleasure of reading editorials that called for "liberty to express one's thoughts, liberty to disagree, liberty to act without running the risk of being deprived physically of that liberty without valid reasons...
...complete round trip from Lisbon to Biafra takes 30 hours, so two pilots and two flight engineers sleeping in shifts are on every flight, he says. The planes generally fly straight from Lisbon to Biafra, unload and then fly to Bisau. Portuguese Guinea, or St. Isabel or St. Tome, Fernando Po (also Portuguese). Once there, they sometimes fly a short triangle, carrying only food, between Biafra, Bisau, and Fernando Po before returning to Lisbon...
...McGuire takes out his crumpled, purplish U.S. passport, which has $10 bills folded between the pages. He flips past an April 22 exit stamp from Rwanda, and points out a page filled with exit and entry stamps from Lisbon, with no intervening destination stamps--the souvenirs of his clandestine flights. Then, with a little chuckle, he stuffs it back into his flight suit pocket. It won't stay there long, you might guess...