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...Socialists are mad because the conservative People's Party favors a temporary tax increase. In a rare show of opposition in Portugal, the dictatorial government of Antonio Salazar was openly criticized in newspapers last week because living costs are climbing; potato prices are up from 60 a sack to 120 in a year, and other food tags are rising...
...Hassan that the Elysée would not be satisfied until the King at least fired Oufkir. But King Hassan was angry too: he already had canceled a state visit to France because of the Ben Barka affair. At week's end he was still refusing to sack Oufkir, even though Paris threatened to cut off the $100 million in annual aid that Morocco, still closely tied to France after ten years of independence, needs for survival...
...driving champion, idles along in the Beatty-Newman-Brando tradition. Marianna Hill plays the Leslie Caron part, a French waif passed along to Caan by his track rival James Ward, who is a ringer for Doug McClure, who looks like Troy Donahue. Both on the track and in the sack, Red Line 7000 stresses the importance of luck-which must be the only hope for a movie put together with so little skill...
With that, Castello Branco laid down a new Institutional Act far tougher than the one imposed to govern the country immediately after the revolution. It gives him power to suspend the political rights of any Brazilian, sack any municipal or federal legislator, intervene in any state "to prevent or repress the subversion of order." He can declare a state of siege for up to 180 days, shut down the national Congress, and decree any laws "complementary to the present act." Moreover, the armed forces, through the National Security Council, can dismiss any public employees who are deemed "incompatible with...
...Tosca, Aïda, Carmen, Santuzza, Brünnhilde), and they (Norma, Marguerite, Sieglinde, Suor Angelica) have a lot of illegitimate children. Whatever one may think of the plots, one remembers the characters. Rigoletto may end up absurdly with the heroine killed by mistake and then carried in a sack by her own father, who thinks he is carrying the corpse of her traducer; but the bitter, malevolent jester excoriating the decadent court society of his day remains unforgettable...