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...cheers of a waiting crowd, Spínola, who had been one of the country's best guerrilla fighters, entered Republican National Guard headquarters for what was reportedly a polite, even friendly talk with Caetano, who had governed Portugal since 1968 when Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar suffered a stroke. (Salazar died in 1970.) To emphasize the continuity of power despite the coup, the general went to Lisbon's Portela Airport the next morning to bid farewell to Caetano, Thomaz and their senior Cabinet Ministers; they were jetted to exile on the tourist island of Madeira...
...Lisbon. Spinola's iconoclastic views were well known before it was published and were widely shared by many of his fellow officers in the armed forces. He also reportedly had the ear of moderate Premier Marcello Caetano, who had succeeded to power after illness forced Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's resignation...
...Cambridge's Portuguese community there is almost no involvement in politics," Father Joel Oliveira, pastor of St. Anthony's church, says. "The political system in Portugal is so different--there is no involvement in politics at all by the people--it is hard for the Portuguese to adjust. Many Portuguese in Cambridge are not citizens--others do not want to lose citizenship. They don't know about the American system and situation. The Portuguese in Cambridge make a community apart from the general community. The only thing they try to do is make a better life. They...
...Oliveira points out that one of the reasons that the Portuguese are ignored by the rest of the city is that they have such a low political profile. "They aren't a stronghold for political people," Oliveira says. "Cambridge doesn't care as much as it should about our people--East Cambridge means too little to the rest of the city...
Father Joel Oliveira, pastor of St. Anthony's Church on Portland St.--the only Portuguese parish in the Boston area--confirms the Cambridge Portuguese workers' unwillingness to organize for their labor rights. "Two men were here from a union a while ago, they wanted to unionize some of the factories," Oliveira recalls. "The Portuguese didn't want to get involved. In most cases they are underpaid, but they didn't want to lose their jobs...