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What about the case in which the Ford company was ordered to pay $128 million to a man whose Pinto gas tank exploded? (The punitive judgement was overturned on appeal...
This time the Socialists in effect accepted the Mota Pinto government by the device of abstaining in last week's voting, even though Scares is personally opposed to Mota Pinto, a political and economic conservative. Scares said his party would give the new government "time to see what it is going...
What Portugal now has is a government more to the right of center than any other since the revolution. Mota Pinto, 42, a brilliant former law professor at Coimbra University, intends to bring to Portugal what he calls reformism, which he defines as the gradual, realistic search for social and economic improvement. It is, he says, "a prospect, a criterion, a framework...
Accordingly, the program that the Premier presented for treating Portugal's many ills was vague, perhaps deliberately so. Some disgruntled deputies derided it as a "letter of intent," and a "mere memorandum." Without mentioning specifics, the Mota Pinto program called for revising agricultural credit, promoting competition, creating jobs, and keeping up a permanent "dialogue with the workers." In his speech before the Assembly, Mota Pinto spoke forcefully in defense of his program. Said he: "We must put discipline in work, better the conditions for private investment and make the public sector efficient...
...Mota Pinto, who describes himself as "independent and nonpolitical," intends to keep his government of technocrats and holdovers from the Nobre da Costa caretaker regime in office at least until 1980, when general elections are scheduled. In his favor is a definite shift to the right in Portugal's political spectrum. The Socialists have lost badly in by-elections in the conservative north. Portuguese banks, nationalized in 1975, have more or less gone back to operating as private institutions. A Right-Wing Party of Portugal has been formed...