Word: salazarism
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Five years ago, when illness forced Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar to end his 36-year reign, it seemed as though Portugal, like Rip Van Winkle, were awakening after a long sleep. Marcello Caetano, then a 62-year-old law professor, became the new Premier, bringing bright young technocrats into the government, reforming the antiquated educational system, and loosening the government's repressive hand on civil liberties. Last week, however, as Portuguese voters went to the polls to elect a new National Assembly, it was clear that Portugal, unlike Rip Van Winkle, had gone back to sleep...
CARLOS J. SALAZAR...
...most bizarre occurrence, one which forced the rebels to move before they had planned, took place some 7000 miles away in the Carribean. Henrique Malta Galvao, a former colonial High Inspector and a staunch opponent of the then dictator Antonio de Oliveria Salazar, seized the Portuguese luxury liner Santa Maria," the second largest ship in the nation's merchant navy. Along with 68 men armed with machine guns. Galvao hijacked the ship after leaving Curacao with 600 passengers and 300 crew members aboard...
...high seas until three days later, when a joint U.S. English Portuguese search effort finally tracked it down in mid- Atlantic heading south towards Africa. Gaivao announced his intention of sailing to Angola, not to free it, but to set up a rebel Portuguese government there, opposed to the Salazar regime...
Former dictator Salazar ruled Portugal and its empire by the glorification of nationalism and the country's imperial heritage. He had a stroke in 1968 after an unsound deckchair he was sitting on collapsed. But it took him two years...