Word: salazar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in Portugal, Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was all calmness and rhetoric last week in his first interview in years with a U.S. newsman, the New York Times's Benjamin Welles. Shod in high-laced boots, relaxing in a leather chair, onetime Economics Professor Salazar might have been lecturing woolly-headed students. Did he plan economic and social reforms for terror-ridden Angola? "The rhythm of implementation of programs of social advancement will not be slowed down but rather the contrary, if possible . . . It is possible we may have erred on the side of excessive caution and tolerance...
Acheson's book is a completely different genre. If the merit of Kennan's book lies in its profundity and its classic prose; that of Acheson's lies in its sensitivity. Sketches from Life is a series of delicate personality sketches of Bevin, Schuman, Churchill, Molotov, Vyshinsky, Salazar, Vanderberg, Marshall and Adenauer...
Both estimates are probably way too high. Congo observers, working with the scraps of information that leak out past the iron censorship that Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has clamped on Angola, think as many as 7,000 Africans have been killed-many without reason, since probably no more than 2,000 to 3,000 natives are actively in revolt...
Many Portuguese Angolans are appalled by the lawless terror that is overwhelming the province, would gladly leave if they could. But Salazar recently forbade any white male between 18 and 45 to leave Angola, has sharply limited the export of funds out of Angola. At week's end, there were some signs of sanity in Portugal itself. In a public memorandum to Salazar, 61 leading Portuguese demanded drastic changes in the constitution to bring about a more democratic rule in the homeland-as the first step toward solving Portugal's smoldering colonial problems abroad...
Huddled in his leather armchair, his feet neatly encased in old-fashioned high boots, Portugal's fading dictator suddenly seemed very weary. "Maybe," said Salazar, "I have lived beyond my time...