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Futile Effort. A week earlier the fight between the Socialists and Communists, who are allied to the radical faction of the M.F.A., had seemed headed toward a showdown (TIME, June 2). Communist printers had forced the closing of the Socialist newspaper Republica, and Socialist Leader Mario Soares had vowed that he would attend no more meetings of the Cabinet, in which he is a Minister Without Portfolio, until the newspaper was allowed to resume publication. His vow raised the threat that the Socialists, who won 38% in the last elections but hold no real power under the present system, might...
Ugliest Epithet. Outside the building, Socialist Leader Mario Scares and thousands of his supporters kept an all-night vigil in the rain. In the ugliest epithet imaginable, the angry crowd called Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal "a new Salazar"-after the late dictator who ruled Portugal for more than 40 years. "Este jornal nāo ė de Cunhal! [This paper is not Cunhal's]" the Socialists shouted. Several times paratroopers sent to guard the building fired shots into the air; the crowd responded by shouting, "Assassins!" Finally Minister of Social Communications Jorge Correia Jesuino, representing the 30-man Revolutionary...
...celebrate. The election for a constituent assembly had come off with impressive decorum, unmarred by violence or corruption. The Portuguese could also take pride in the fact that an astonishing 92% of the electorate had turned out to give an overwhelming victory to the moderates. The final tally gave Mario Soares' Socialists the lion's share-38% of the vote and 115 seats in the 247-member assembly. In second place were the middle-reading Popular Democrats, with 26% and 80 seats, while the Communists trailed a poor third, with only 12.5% and 30 seats. The Communist-allied...
Coming down the stretch, each party took its turn appealing to the voters. On Sunday, the Socialists took over Lisbon's May 1 Stadium for a windup rally that attracted 60,000 people, whom Party Leader Mario Scares told: "We want to march in the direction of freedom." Tuesday night, the Popular Democrats, perhaps 5,000 in all, assembled in Lisbon's Sports Pavilion for what was more a bell-bottomed social occasion of the chic Estoril set than a serious political meeting. On Wednesday night, the Communists drew 60,000 in the May 1 Stadium. While vendors...
SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER MARIO SOARES, 50, a lawyer and outspoken critic of Salazar, was jailed twelve times before fleeing to Paris in 1969. There he became acquainted with other social democrats in Europe. As Foreign Minister, he engineered the independence of Portugal's African territories. He relinquished that post in the Cabinet shakeup last month (he is currently Minister Without Portfolio), but remains a dynamic political figure and a talked-about candidate for Premier...