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...leader, the F.L.A. gets its support mostly from middle-class and wealthy islanders. Their complaints center on two points: 1) that Azorians are not only patronized by the mainland Portuguese as dumb country cousins, but also pay higher taxes and higher prices than the "continentals," and 2) that the Lisbon government is drifting too far to the left. In last April's election, the Azores gave the centrist Popular Democratic Party 60% of the vote, the Socialists 25% and the Communists less than...
...this would not be particularly noteworthy were it not for the Azores' strategic importance. Situated 1,000 miles west of Lisbon and 2,500 miles east of New York, the islands have been a way station for travelers since Portuguese navigators first discovered and began colonizing them around 1430. During World War II, they were the main stopover for prop planes going to and from Southern Europe, and the islands were nicknamed "the Grand Central Station of the Atlantic." Shortly after the war, the U.S. took over the old British base on Terceira Island, known as Lajes Field. Washington...
With independence from Portugal fast approaching, Angola is careering toward a bloodbath even more rapidly than the mother country. Last week, when the Portuguese high commissioner, General Antonio da Silva Cardoso, flew home for consultations in Lisbon, he left behind a torn and bleeding land. Fighting among rival liberation movements engulfed the last of Portugal's African territories and posed the prospect of a Nov. 11 changeover that will be anything but orderly. Said a bitter Silva Cardoso: "Perhaps they can just mail the flag to Lisbon...
Party Boss Cunhal spent 13 years behind bars, eight of them in solitary. He became something of a legend, even among nonCommunists, for his daring 1960 escape with nine other prisoners from Lisbon's infamous Peniche Prison, which sits on a rocky promontory overlooking the Atlantic. The inmates were aided by a sympathetic guard who marched them one by one underneath his rain cape to a 60-ft. wall overlooking the sea. Using a rope of knotted sheets, they climbed down and were able to swim to shore, where waiting cars picked them...
...Communists were also able to capitalize on worker dissatisfaction in Lisbon and other big cities. The old regime advertised Portugal to foreign investors as "a land of cheap labor." The Communists worked persistently within the framework of the legal labor syndicates. By the time of the revolution, they controlled the Bank Workers Union, the Metallurgical Workers Union, the Shopworkers Union and several other major organizations. Their strength was such that in the months prior to the ouster of the old regime, they were able to call out 100,000 workers in wildcat strikes and send thousands of students into...