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...Ford Escorts moved unobtrusively down a quiet, tree-lined avenue in Restelo, an affluent suburb of Lisbon. One stopped outside the driveway of the Turkish embassy; the other turned sharply, burst through the compound's 3-ft.-high iron gates and jolted to a halt. An armed man advanced on the embassy, wounded a police sentry in a burst of fire and was in turn shot dead by a Turkish security guard. As Portuguese policemen hurried toward the scene, four other intruders raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide...
...dazzling exhibition of art, science and culture, the theme of which is Portuguese discoveries and Renaissance Europe. The works displayed range from the 15th to the 17th century, and the show has taken years to assemble from around the world. It is divided among five historical monuments in Lisbon. The Algarve, a longtime tourist favorite on the Atlantic coast with some of Europe's best beaches, boasts three Vegas-style casinos...
December 10, 1975: "Indonesia is having trouble convincing the world that military intervention in Timor is justified in part because of the unexpectedly strong reaction from Portugal itself...Lisbon has broken relations with Indonesia and the Portuguese Foreign Minister has branded Jakarta's actions an 'unqualified act of armed aggression...
...bereft Frenchman looked on," says Wouk. Author-Adapter Herman Wouk "That was dramatic, I thought." On the other hand, Curtis occasionally requested material that had not appeared in the book; for example, in a scene where Newlyweds Byron Henry and Natalie Jastrow encounter some Nazis in a Lisbon restaurant, Curtis wanted to have Byron slug one of the Nazis, instead of simply walking out as he did in the book. Wouk objected that Byron would never do such a thing. Curtis shot it anyway. Says Wouk: "I laughed when he told me, and said...
...despair and selfish desire. It is reborn in sacrifice and community: "It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill o' beans in this crazy world." Idealism and its bride ascend into heaven on the Lisbon plane; Rick goes off in the fog with Louis, men without women, to do mortal work in this world for the higher cause...