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Despite the difficulties, Soares could tick off some notable achievements for his 500 days. He restored good relations with NATO, won approval in Europe for Portugal's application to join the European Community and immeasurably boosted Lisbon's prestige in the West, the East bloc and the Third World. He negotiated a series of major loans, including nearly $1 billion in aid from the U.S. At home, all but four of 78 pieces of Socialist legislation presented to the assembly had been passed. Among them: a comprehensive agrarian-reform law, a measure providing compensation for the nationalization...
...services, continued high unemployment and balance of payments deficits. The social peace that has characterized Soares' term has been shattered by several violent demonstrations and bombings. Earlier this month, 20,000 right-wing demonstrators-including wealthy businessmen, dirt farmers from the north and neo-Nazi youth-marched through Lisbon to show their discontent...
...Jefferson City, through the slaying of King and Ray's arrest at London's Heathrow Airport on June 8, 1968? Where did he pick up the savvy to adopt four clever aliases in Canada during that flight and then acquire a passport to travel to London and Lisbon, eluding for so long one of the most massive man hunts in modern times...
...trying to achieve a Rhodesian settlement, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was prepared to settle for majority rule in Rhodesia and Namibia, and worry about South Africa later; Carter believes all three must move together. Even as Mondale was heading for Vienna last week, after making diplomatic stops in Lisbon and Madrid, the President said in a television interview in Los Angeles that the U.S. was doing "everything we can" to persuade Vorster to end apartheid...
Today Portugal enjoys official freedom of religion, and the 400 members of Lisbon's openly Jewish community are prominent in business and the professions. In the northern villages, however, cruel memories persist. The priests are nearly as powerful-and many of them as backward and anti-Semitic-as in the Middle Ages. The current priest in Belmonte is a "good man," says a prosperous Marrano housewife, but the previous one "said in church that the Jews should be hanged." The Marranos claim that when they did not attend Mass they were denounced to the secret police as suspected Communists...