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...military hated the words. "A subversive lyric," said General Luis de Franĉa Oliveira, Rio's secretary of public security. "A musical cadence of the Mao Tse-tung type that can easily serve as the anthem for student street demonstrations." In a fit of anger, police in Rio's main street arrested one group of youths merely for listening to Caminhando outside a record shop...
...long period, the country grew accustomed to being governed by a man of genius, but from now on it must adapt itself to being governed by men like other men." With those words, Marcello Caetano, a longtime associate of Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, last week became Premier of Portugal, ending 36 years of Salazar rule...
...nearly 40 years, António de Oliveira Salazar has been the unusual dictator of an unfortunate land. An austere, almost monastic man who once taught economics, he has shunned publicity and raised few monuments to himself. Yet he built a tightly run, corporate state modeled closely on Mussolini's Italy, and his secret police have harshly repressed most discussion and all dissent. He has ruled longer than any other European political leader in this century. Early this month, after injuring his head in a fall from a deck chair, Salazar, 79, underwent surgery for removal of a blood...
Scandals have been almost as scarce as effective political opponents during the long dictatorship of Portugal's Premier, Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Though the Portuguese themselves are neither particularly prudish nor incorruptible, Salazar's puritanical regime, with the help of a highly efficient police organization, has always tried to silence even the faintest whisper of vice in high places. Last week, however, Salazar's regime failed in its efforts to squelch the worst public scandal in its 40 years of rule...
...nations are not even drinking as much as they used to. In the U.S., which takes 50% of the global output, per capita daily consumption has fallen from 3.12 cups to 2.86 cups in four years, apparently because younger Americans tend to prefer soft drinks. Thus last week, Joao Oliveira Santos, executive director of the International Coffee Organization, reminded delegates that coffee production, increasing at the rate of 5% annually, is now double the annual amount consumed by coffee drinkers...