Word: salazarism
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...impoverished north of Portugal; they had emigrated to Angola in the hope of a better life. Although few got rich, most had deep roots in Africa. Many of the refugees found it extremely difficult to adjust to a Portugal that was still in the throes of the post-Salazar transition to democracy and a mixed economy. Jobs, housing and schooling were scarce: thousands still live in wretched urban shantytowns...
...1920s, Army Captain Artur Carlos de Barros Basto, a descendant of Marranos, converted to Judaism and helped establish a synagogue and seminary in Oporto. He toured rural areas telling the Jews that there was no longer reason to be afraid. During the early years under Salazar, the right-wing Catholic Action movement started a smear campaign against Barros Basto. His seminary was closed down, and he was court-martialed for immorality because he promoted circumcision. He died a broken...
...former alcoholics, John Thomas, 28, and Jack Salazar, 27, seized twelve people in a New York City hospital to protest the closing of an alcohol detoxification program. Result: they surrendered peacefully...
Says Richard N. Gardner, Ambassador-designate to Italy and a close Carter adviser: "We've been in bed with some of the worst regimes in the world." Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal and Greece under the junta are infamous examples. Others...
...1930s. Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal, 62, spent many years in the Communist underground there organizing farm workers. Through the clandestinely published party newspaper Avante, which was surreptitiously dropped on doorsteps at night, the party organized a series of strikes in the 1950s−then a daring affront to the Salazar regime...