Word: salazarism
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...government (friends call inm "the man who never sleeps") and studiously intellectual, he is dedicated to revamping the economic and social structure of ins country. Goncalves talked at ins official residence on the grounds of Sāo Bento Palace, the large winte villa where the late dictator Antonio Salazar lived. In conversation, he displays flashes of humor and strong passion...
SOCIALIST PARTY LEADER MARIO SOARES, 50, a lawyer and outspoken critic of Salazar, was jailed twelve times before fleeing to Paris in 1969. There he became acquainted with other social democrats in Europe. As Foreign Minister, he engineered the independence of Portugal's African territories. He relinquished that post in the Cabinet shakeup last month (he is currently Minister Without Portfolio), but remains a dynamic political figure and a talked-about candidate for Premier...
...progressive conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned in the shadow of a spy scandal, and was succeeded by moderate Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt. Italy lost its 31st government of the postwar era. Portugal deposed Marcello Caetano, the dictatorial heir of Salazar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie was stripped of hereditary power going back 2,500 years and trundled off to house arrest by a military junta...
...Happily for Portugal [May 6], Dr. Salazar has finally been buried. Unfortunately, the new government thinks it can resolve the country's colonial entanglements through a so-called federation. General Spinola should remember that another general, not so long ago, attempted to salvage another African empire in the same way. De Gaulle's proposed French Community proved unworkable, and he had the grace to accept its demise. I hope General Spinola will also have the grace to say goodbye to Africa without any more bloodshed...
...General António de Spínola should be the last man in Portugal to lead a campaign for reform and liberalization. For most of his 64 years he has been a stern authoritarian. The son of a top financial adviser to Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, he was a volunteer fighter on the Franco side in the Spanish Civil War, commanding a detachment of other Portuguese volunteers. A few years later, the Portuguese high command, recognizing his potential, sent him to Nazi Germany for training with the then invincible Wehrmacht. From the German side he watched...