Word: salazarism
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...businessmen were further hardened against the regime after security forces last November shot to death Jorge Salazar, a popular, prominent businessman and COSEP member. The Sandinistas claim that Salazar was conspiring to overthrow the government, but business sources believe that he was framed in order to discredit the private sector...
DIED. Marcello Caetano, 74, Prime Minister of Portugal for six years before being ousted by a military coup in 1974; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Appointed Prime Minister in 1968, when longtime Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was incapacitated by a stroke, Caetano made some abortive moves toward liberalization and tried vainly to preserve Portugal's eroding colonial empire by continuing costly wars hi Mozambique and Angola before his dismissal by the junta of General Antonio de Spinola...
...Alberto Salazar, running his first marathon, won the 11th New York City Marathon Sunday in convincing style while Greta Waitz of Norway broke the women's world record for the third consecutive year...
...year-old Salazar, breaking away from the pack with about five miles remaining, was timed in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 41 seconds, smashing the meet record of 2:10:09 set by Bill Rodgers...
...country's arable farm land from Somoza and his cronies, yet they have allowed the private sector to retain control of about 60% of the gross national product. Despite their uncertainty over the Sandinistas' aims, many businessmen express cautious optimism about the future. Says Jorge Salazar, president of the Agricultural Producers' Union: "The private sector that is not investing in Nicaragua left with Somoza...