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...Tocumen, Eisenhauer finagled his way into a meeting with Panama's director of civil aviation, who turned out to be another ex-fighter pilot. Eisenhauer convinced his new-found friend that he did indeed represent the plane's owners and had come to take the plane to the U.S. for maintenance...
...months to come, Spínola may have to do even greater things if Portugal is to keep its new-found democracy. Even as the cheers echoed through Lisbon and the ubiquitous red carnations were still fresh, the dark outline of Portugal's multitudinous problems loomed behind the celebrations like a grim, surrealistic bas-relief...
After the first euphoric outbursts, the residents of Lisbon reacted with some confusion to their new-found freedom. Several hundred youthful leftists, who had been more harshly suppressed than any other group, held a demonstration in Rossio Square and carried banners calling for freedom to form unions and strike. Red hammers and sickles dotted the surface of some monuments, together with hand-scrawled announcements of a demonstration scheduled this week for May 1-the traditional day of Communist celebration. "Our long, long night is over," one of the students exulted to TIME's Steve Englund. "Portugal is free...
...former president of the two-million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters was in Boston recently pressing the message of his new-found cause onto, it seemed, anyone who would listen, and probably many who didn't. The Crimson listened, mostly in Hoffa's limousine, between a speech and reception in Andover and a dinner in downtown Boston...
Returning home to the plaudits of his countrymen, Onoda accepted his new-found celebrity with philosophical calm. What had been his toughest experience? "To have lost my comrades-in-arms." And the most pleasant experience? "Nothing-nothing pleasant happened to me through all these 29 years." Still, he was not quite willing to admit that it had all been in vain. "My country today is rich and great," he said. "When my purpose in the war has been attained, in the fact that Japan today is rich and great, to have won or lost the war is entirely beside...