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...alves, Ford planned to promise continued U.S. economic assistance to Portugal's moderate leftists. In addition, he will encourage other European leaders to supply all possible aid to Gonçalves' leftist coalition government in an effort to bolster the Socialists, Popular Democrats and other non-Communist leftists who won nearly 70% of the vote in the recent election. The Administration was pessimistic that U.S. and European support of the moderates will block the growing Communist control of the press and trade unions (see THE WORLD). Still, as a U.S. policymaker noted, "it's the only policy...
...Socialist newspaper Republica, which was seized by its Communist typesetters and then shuttered by the Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.). Since the Portuguese revolution in April 1974, the well-organized Communists have gained what amounts to virtual control over the nation's television, radio and most of its principal newspapers, which were taken over by the state when the government nationalized the banks last March. For weeks the Communists had also been trying to take control of the editorial policies of Republica, one of the last non-Communist papers in Lisbon. Socialist Editor Raul Rego, 62, who was imprisoned several...
Such anger from Bangkok-one of Washington's best friends in Asia since the end of World War II-underscores the extent to which the Thais have been stunned by the fall of the non-Communist governments in Cambodia and South Viet Nam and the current turbulence in Laos. Thailand sent soldiers to fight in South Viet Nam, and 25,000 U.S. servicemen and 350 American military aircraft are still based on Thai soil. But the Thais, who share 1,000 miles of common border with Laos and Cambodia, have suddenly found themselves surrounded by hostile forces. Accordingly, they...
...event last week was a three-day celebration of both the Communist victory and the birthday of Ho Chi Minh. All schools, hospitals and families displayed pictures of Ho as well as flags of the Provisional Revolutionary Government and North Viet Nam. Hanoi dispatched a prestigious delegation to take part in the festivities, including Politburo Member Le Due Tho and North Vietnamese President Ton Due Thang. Also making their first appearances in Saigon since the Communist victory were civilian leaders like non-Communist Nguyen Huu Tho, chairman of the P.R.G. Advisory Council...
...that the U.S. turn over to the P.R.G. all files and assets of the former South Vietnamese embassy there. At week's end a South Vietnamese delegation was enthusiastically welcomed in Bangkok for talks with the Thai government in the P.R.G.'s first official contact with a non-Communist government since the fall of Saigon...