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...intellectual focus and disappointment in the children's lives than is shown in this overly sweet film. It is assuredly a harmless way to pass a rainy weekend afternoon with one's own kids, though the commercially made and fictional The Turning Point, for all its melo drama, actually offers a truer glimpse of ballet life...
Portugal's immediate crisis is past, but the country must still reckon with serious problems before achieving either political or economic stability. "The people have seen only the tip of the iceberg," was the gloomy assessment of Antonio Vasco de Melo, one of the country's leading industrialists and president of the Confederation of Portuguese Industry. "The Communist Party is still in control of the big union confederation, and the Communists are still in the government. While this situation continues, there will be no investment in Portugal. The country needs confidence that there is real, practical authority...
Under strong pressure from moderate politicians - Socialist Leader Mario Scares, Major Ernesto Melo Antunes. the dominant moderate voice on the ruling Council of the Revolution, and Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo - the President for once stood firm. He went on TV to declare a state of emergency, and he urged the rebellious paratroopers to end their "adventurous counterrevolutionary action." More important, he sent Neves' tough, red-bereted commandos to regain the air-force installations. All five of them were recaptured without bloodshed. The only deaths occurred when the commandos moved into the headquarters of the leftist military-police...
...Wednesday, when the coup was collapsing, the Communists were piously warning against "desperate political acts by the left." Although the best-organized of Portugal's parties, the Communists will now have to deal with a strengthened center and with the greater stature of such men as Scares, Melo Antunes and Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo, not to mention the new presence of Commando Colonel Neves...
...Last week you met with the Portuguese Foreign Minister [Melo Antunes] and the Administration has put forward to Congress the proposal for $85 million in aid. How do you now feel about the survival of pluralist democracy in Portugal...