Word: portela
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...first TAP Airline jumbo jets begin arriving at Lisbon's Portela de Sacavém International Airport at 7:55 in the morning. By 10 o'clock customs and immigration offices are overflowing: upper-middle-class professional men with their well-dressed families "on holiday," civil servants "on extended leave," students looking for places at Lisbon University, shopkeepers, farmers, nuns, Asians, mulattoes and frightened old people. Pushing a cart piled high with 14 suitcases and carrying a bicycle, João Tudo Bern, a civil servant from the Angolan capital of Luanda expressed the prevailing sentiment: "I have...
...junta has no intention of granting independence now. Even as small numbers of the thousands of young Portuguese who fled their country to escape the draft began trickling back last week, troops were boarding transports at Portela airport to be flown to combat areas in the territories...
...week after the army coup that ousted a dictatorship of almost half a century, Portugal was still in a festive, holiday mood, still celebrating the sudden, surprising gift of freedom. At Portela Airport outside Lisbon, nearly every plane brought in a new group of exiles, many of whom had not been home for years. Red carnations, the popular insignia of the April 25th revolution, sprouted from buttonholes and blouses everywhere...
...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...
...vanished Douglas had taken off from Portela airfield outside Lisbon, an international junction shared by Allied and Axis planes. The afternoon transport from London used to bring English newspapers for the German Embassy. Over this line, via Switzerland, passed information on war prisoners. The planes using Portela enjoyed an unwritten guarantee of safe conduct...