Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Salazar, was jailed twelve times before fleeing to Paris in 1969. There he became acquainted with other social democrats in Europe. As Foreign Minister, he engineered the independence of Portugal's African territories. He relinquished that post in the Cabinet shakeup last month (he is currently Minister Without Portfolio), but remains a dynamic political figure and a talked-about candidate for Premier...
...Communists, the Popular Democrats and the Socialists each retained two portfolios in the enlarged Cabinet, and the Democratic Movement was given one. But Socialist Leader Mario Scares was replaced as Foreign Minister by Major Ernesto Melo Antunes, who was Scares' chief assistant in negotiating the independence of Portugal's African territories of Mozambique and Angola. Antunes, a Marxist moderate, is not expected to make any significant changes in foreign policy, particularly with regard to Portugal's ties to NATO. Like Communist Secretary-General Alvaro Cunhal, Scares will remain as a minister without portfolio. That is a considerable...
Just how open Ford was with Ward is shown in the remarkable photographs on this and the following two pages. They are part of a portfolio of Ward's pictures to be published in May by Harper & Row in a book entitled Portrait of a President. The volume also includes a portrait biography of the President written by Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington bureau chief...
...morning of Feb. 6, Giovanni Spadolini walked into a committee room in Rome's Chamber of Deputies and got ready to debate. Three months earlier, Aldo Moro's center-left government had given him the newly invented and resonant-sounding portfolio of Ministro dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali (Minister of Cultural and Environmental Resources). Since then, Spadolini had been striving to get more money and protection for Italy's impoverished and vulnerable museums. Two new bills were ready to be argued. "Just as the debate was beginning," Spadolini recalls, "a colleague in the chamber came...
...Portuguese Communist Party (P.C.P.), whose 36-man Central Committee collectively racked up more than 300 years in jail under the old regime, has benefited from the tight organization established when the party worked underground. Despite years in prison and exile, Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal, 60, Minister Without Portfolio in the provisional government, has become the best-known politician in the country. The Communist program is relatively moderate, calling for agrarian reform and nationalization of banks and insurance companies. Its heaviest support comes from workers and tenant farmers in the impoverished Alentejo region in the south...