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...revolt-torn African colony of Angola were diverted to home duty instead. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic-whipped northwestern frontier, police mounted a vast network of roadblocks known as "Operation Stop," ostensibly to crack down on auto thieves. Actual reason for the emergency: Strongman António de Oliveira Salazar's obsessive fear that maverick Henrique Galvâo, who stole the Santa Maria and world headlines in an eleven-day protest against the regime last January, plans a coup in Portugal itself...
...socialists and old-guard liberals, disenchanted doctors and lawyers to army and navy officers. The opposition platform, which the government labeled "unconstitutional," called for democratic rights, economic progress and an enlightened colonial policy. But the opposition's main target was 72-year-old António de Oliveira Salazar, for as one candidate exclaimed: "The government's only hope is that Salazar is immortal. Like Hitler and Mussolini, this regime is holding out to the bitter moment when all crashes about...
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar is a shrewd, cold, and almost entirely frank dictator, and it is because of these qualities that Portuguese elections are affairs quite unlike any other political activity in the West. Those who show up at the polls, as 65 per cent of the electorate is supposed to have done this year, register their votes for the regime calmly and without much interest. Those who actively boycott the election or who support opposition groups may shout and run about at the time, but after November settle once again into silence...
...memebers of Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar's tame Parliament...
Glorious Page. In Portugal itself, Strongman Antōnio de Oliveira Salazar, after 33 years in power, hangs on to office as strongly as he hangs on to empire. Despite tax boosts, the government is finding it almost impossible to finance its colonial wars, and Lisbon talks grandly of African reforms to speed the independence of its colonies-once "pacification" is complete. But after the loss of unimportant Fort St. John in Dahomey last week. Portugal talked bombastically of regaining the lost fort "by all means within reach." A semiofficial Lisbon newspaper cried that in burning the fort and fleeing...