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Lost Buffer. This sequence of events would have seemed unthinkable as recently as nine or ten months ago. Smith's concession-and the whole process of rapprochement that is underway in southern Africa-stems directly from the coup d'état in Lisbon last April and the subsequent decision by the new Portuguese government to grant independence to Mozambique next year and to Angola not long thereafter. Faced with the loss of the Portuguese colonies as buffer states, South African Prime Minister John Vorster pressed forward with a plan to achieve a détente between black...
...that staid Lisbon has yet turned into another Copenhagen. But sexually explicit Danish magazines are now available on newspaper kiosks along with tamer publications like Penthouse. Uncut versions of previously forbidden films such as Last Tango in Paris and A Clockwork Orange are drawing huge crowds. A dubbed-in-Portuguese version of Deep Throat has been approved for import. Bawdy, undulating, take-it-all-off strippers from France and Italy are lending new interest to traditional vaudeville. Enthusiastic audiences flocked to see Last Fado in Lisbon, featuring a French stripper named Poupée la Rose...
...previous [pre-April 25] government was an extreme right-wing dictatorship," he told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott before he left Lisbon. "Thus the present government will have to maintain its rudder on a leftward course. That is imperative. If we have only one year to rid ourselves of a half-century of extreme reaction, what climate do you think we should create to guarantee victory for any democratic party?" He added: "Portugal has already confirmed several times its respect for international treaties to which it is committed. There is not the slightest intention of considering leaving NATO...
Someone obviously got the message. Three weeks ago, well-financed political organizers, billing themselves as members of the "silent majority," began drawing up plans for a huge pro-Spínola rally in front of the presidential palace in Lisbon. Huge posters showing a man saying "Maioria Silenciosa" (Silent Majority) began appearing on Lisbon walls. Buses were hired and free train tickets were given away to bring people into Lisbon from the countryside. Leftists soon launched a poster counteroffensive, tearing down the silent-majority signs or embellishing them with fangs and swastikas...
...considered a better politician than his predecessor. The real winner in last week's shake-up is undeniably Gonçalves, 53, a quick-tempered, idealistic former army engineer who is widely regarded as the principal architect of the April 25th revolution. Says one longtime political observer in Lisbon: "Gonçalves has about him a little bit of the style of the evangelist missionary who is committed to saving people's souls whether they want...