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...Beja, guerrillas of a group known as FP-25 bombed 18 Mercedes-Benz cars belonging mostly to West German military personnel at a German air force training base. No one was seriously injured. Earlier in the week, FP-25 terrorists fired rocket-propelled grenades at six NATO ships in Lisbon harbor. The barrage fell short of the targets...
...prime stretch of coastline called Moody Beach. Assistant Attorney General Paul Stern, for one, believes that the courts "will decide that the public has the right to use the state beaches rather than preserving them for essentially the privileged classes. Why shouldn't a mill worker from Lisbon Falls be able to use the beaches?" he asks. The legal tide seems to be going...
From the start, Botha's hosts went to some effort to keep a discreet distance be tween themselves and their guest. "I'm here because I was invited by different governments," Botha declared upon arrival in Lisbon, though most of the govern ments concerned were saying that he had invited himself. When asked about the demonstrations that threatened to interrupt his travels, Botha bristled, "We live in a free world. It is everyone's right to demonstrate, even to make fools of themselves...
...diplomatic front, Soares has cultivated good relations with the Portuguese-speaking African countries, especially Mozambique. He is also acting as an intermediary in the negotiations over Namibia, and has invited representatives of the former Portuguese territories in Africa to attend a summit meeting in Lisbon this winter; so far, all but Angola have accepted. In addition, Soares plans to gather in Corfu next month with the Prime Ministers of the three other socialist governments in southern Europe-Italy, Greece and Spain. He will meet with his Spanish counterpart, Felipe Gonz...
...were shocked and dismayed to read in your coverage [Aug. 8] of the Turkish embassy incident in Lisbon your description of the 1915 genocide of 1.5 million Armenians as an "alleged 1915 massacre." The undeniable truth is that the massacre did take place and that at least 1 million Armenians died (the often cited estimate being 1.5 million...