Word: salazarism
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...nearly 40 years, António de Oliveira Salazar has been the unusual dictator of an unfortunate land. An austere, almost monastic man who once taught economics, he has shunned publicity and raised few monuments to himself. Yet he built a tightly run, corporate state modeled closely on Mussolini's Italy, and his secret police have harshly repressed most discussion and all dissent. He has ruled longer than any other European political leader in this century. Early this month, after injuring his head in a fall from a deck chair, Salazar, 79, underwent surgery for removal of a blood...
Scandals have been almost as scarce as effective political opponents during the long dictatorship of Portugal's Premier, Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Though the Portuguese themselves are neither particularly prudish nor incorruptible, Salazar's puritanical regime, with the help of a highly efficient police organization, has always tried to silence even the faintest whisper of vice in high places. Last week, however, Salazar's regime failed in its efforts to squelch the worst public scandal in its 40 years of rule...
...scandal involves a high-society prostitution ring that catered to the top echelon of Lisbon's social, business and political set. Operating almost under Salazar's nose, the girls worked out of a seemingly innocent dress shop on Lisbon's chic Avenida Roma. Many of them were teen-agers and even younger, and, according to Portuguese officials, they performed for their clients most of the tricks and perversions known to pornographic literature...
With the prosecution thus stalled, the political implications became more apparent. Justice Minister Joao de Matos Antunes Varela, who has often been spoken of as a possible Salazar successor, left his post amid rumors that he had balked at Salazar's orders to halt the proceedings against the high-level defendants. Though none of Salazar's ministers has so far been identified as a patron of the ring, the scandal has given a highly charged issue to what antigovernment forces there are. Dr. Mario Scares, a prominent opposition lawyer, was arrested last week on charges of spreading malicious...
Afterward, the Pope greeted the only survivor among the three children who reported seeing the Fátima vision-Lucia dos Santos, now a 60-year-old Carmelite nun-and conferred briefly with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Eleven hours after his arrival, Paul was winging back to Rome. Whatever its temporal effects on peace, many Catholics regarded the Pope's visit as a religious incongruity. To encourage ecumenism with Protestants, the Second Vatican Council did not emphasize Mary, and the exaggeration of Marian devotion in Catholicism has since declined. In the light of Paul's conservatism...