Word: portela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Portela Military Airport in Lisbon, the final stop on the Reagans' Euro- pean trip, they were greeted by President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. Portugal's leader is one of Reagan's biggest European boosters, and the crowd waved American flags and held up a banner reading WE LOVE REAGAN. At the Portuguese parliament, the President laughed off another Communist walkout ("I'm sorry that some of the chairs on the left seem to be uncomfortable") and hailed the host country's eleven-year-old democracy. Said Reagan: "It is the democratic world that is flexible, vibrant and growing --bringing its people...