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...Paris Correspondent George Taber, it was a routine background lunch. Assigned to keep a running watch on events in Portugal, Taber talked politics in a Right Bank bistro with Mário Soares, an obscure exile who was teaching Portuguese and history at a French university. Since that meeting a year and a half ago, Soares has returned home to lead Portugal's powerful Socialist Party, and Taber has visited Lisbon several times to report on "the Revolution of the Flowers" (named for the red carnations that symbolized the Armed Forces Movement...
...military. Certain to be absent from the Cabinet are the moderates-the Socialists and centrist Popular Democrats, who together polled nearly two-thirds of the vote in last April's Constituent Assembly election. In opposition to the M.F.A.'s recent authoritarian measures, Socialist Party Leader Mário Soares and officials of the Popular Democrats prohibited their party colleagues from participating in the new government. Denouncing the Directory as unconstitutional, Soares called for a broadly representative "government of national salvation," warning last week that "the rhythm of our revolution is too fast...
...state, frost damaged 50% to 70% of the coffee trees. The effect on prices was instant. Within a week of the frost, coffee rose from 52? to 84? per Ib. on the London commodities market, as nervous traders rushed to snap up supplies in case of a shortage. In Rio de Janeiro, supermarkets lifted prices 53?, to $1.29 per Ib. And in the U.S. last week, the General Foods Corp. hiked its wholesale prices for grocery brands (including Maxwell House) by 20? per Ib. for ground coffee and 3? per oz. for freeze-dried and instant. Other wholesalers planned similar...
...northern provinces, mobs of angry shopkeepers, peasants and craftsmen have launched a wave of attacks against about a score of Communist Party headquarters in the north. They are infuriated by the way the Communists have tried to seize national power despite their poor performance in the elections. In Rio Maior, furniture was tossed from the party headquarters' windows, doused with whiskey, and set aflame; at Vale de Cambra, a Molotov cocktail reduced the headquarters to a shambles of broken glass, ashes and charred posters. A Communist Party member in Estarreja who strayed too near a crowd trashing the headquarters...
...reported Taber. "People fear they will lose everything. 'All I want is a party that won't take away my car,' a cab driver in Porto told me. Most important, the people fear the Communists will grab their land. Thus it is scarcely surprising that in Rio Maior an artisan insisted that 'It's better to be a homosexual than a Communist.' " Until recently, the north regarded the military as heroes for triggering last year's revolution. Now an increasing number of the area's inhabitants mutter bitterly, as did a mechanic...