Word: salazar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viva Portugal! Viva Salazar!" roared the crowd of 80,000 jamming the dock area in Lisbon. Jet fighters of the Portuguese air force whined overhead, tugboats and pleasure craft blew their whistles as the 20,906-ton liner Santa Maria last week steamed majestically up the Tagus River, back in its home port and in Portuguese control after its twelve-day captivity by rebel Captain Henrique Galv...
Even aging Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, 71, who rarely appears in public, was on hand for the gala occasion. Well guarded by police, Salazar boarded the Santa Maria, smiled benignly from the bridge for 30 minutes of vivas by the crowd, then descended to the ship's chapel to pray at the flower-decked casket of the young third pilot, the only fatality in the rebel capture of the Santa Maria. Across the wide Atlantic in Brazil, where he is enjoying asylum, rebel Captain Galvão added his own carnival note to the saga...
...Portugal itself, aging but agile Dictator António Salazar was having trouble with his own aftermath of the Santa Maria. He decided to allow people to let off a little steam. Newspaper editors in Oporto and Lisbon were given permission to publish an open letter addressed to the government by three opposition leaders. "Speaking in the name of many we know," the petition asked for "a government capable of inspiring the confidence of the country," and demanded "restitution to the Portuguese of their fundamental liberties-those same liberties which the constitution promises and which have become, to our regret...
Fresh Paint. This ringing tocsin for revolt was not answered in somnolent Portugal. Under Salazar, the rich are satisfied and the poor are at least quiet. The law requires that every house in Portugal be painted every two years, but the government seems unconcerned whether the same houses contain running water or electric lights. A onetime professor of economics, Salazar often speaks of "the grace of being poor," and has outlawed strikes, lockouts and "similar irregularities." The wages of skilled workers reach a high of $2.80 a day. There are six different kinds of national police, and the armed forces...
Dissatisfaction is most vocal in the ranks of the small middle class. In a letter to the Salazar government last week, 39 doctors, lawyers and writers said that the seizure of the Santa Maria "accentuates the deplorable conditions of our political life." They also complained that they had not yet received an answer to the Nov. 11 letter, signed by 275 professional men, which asked for increased political freedom and hinted that aging Dictator Salazar, 71, should retire...