Word: salazarism
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About 1000 sheriff's deputies in flak jackets and helmets were called out to put down the looting, and to protect firemen called in to stop blazes in the area, which destroyed two buildings. The violence came in the same area where Chicano newsman Ruben Salazar was killed by police bullets last August...
...Silver Dollar Bar on Whittier Boulevard, deputies found the body of Ruben Salazar, 42, a militant Mexican-American journalist well known in the Chicano community. Salazar, for years a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, joined the Chicano-oriented television station KMEX earlier this year and continued writing a weekly Times column that often bitterly attacked racism among white Angelenos. Many of Los Angeles' Mexican Americans looked to Salazar as their spokesman and interpreter to the Anglos. There is a notable new militancy among Chicanos, inspired by the successes of Cesar Chavez in organizing California's farm workers...
Colonial Power. During the Spanish Civil War, Salazar backed Franco against the Republicans. In World War II, he remained nominally neutral but sympathized with Hitler and Mussolini. After it became clear that the Axis powers were losing, he shrewdly granted the U.S. and Britain the right to build bases in the Azores. It was an investment that paid off in a postwar seat in NATO for Portugal...
Throughout his career, Salazar spoke proudly of his little country as "a great colonial power" and clung stubbornly to the remnants of the Portuguese Empire. For eight years, he conducted a series of wars against black nationalist guerrillas in his African colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea. He never visited the colonies, however, promising to go to Angola "only when the last terrorist has been dominated or expelled...
Died. António de Oliveira Salazar, 81, dictator of Portugal for 40 years (see THE WORLD...