Word: salazarism
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...memebers of Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar's tame Parliament...
None to be debated: Salazar's Angola war, lack of free speech, are taboo...
Glorious Page. In Portugal itself, Strongman Antōnio de Oliveira Salazar, after 33 years in power, hangs on to office as strongly as he hangs on to empire. Despite tax boosts, the government is finding it almost impossible to finance its colonial wars, and Lisbon talks grandly of African reforms to speed the independence of its colonies-once "pacification" is complete. But after the loss of unimportant Fort St. John in Dahomey last week. Portugal talked bombastically of regaining the lost fort "by all means within reach." A semiofficial Lisbon newspaper cried that in burning the fort and fleeing...
...week's end Portugal's Premier António de Oliveira Salazar told the National Assembly that he had no intention of complying with the U.N. resolution calling on Portugal to "halt measures of suppression" in Angola. Salazar charged that the U.S. was serving Communist subversion in Africa by voting for the resolution and offering support to Africa's black anti-colonialists. Said Salazar: "Everything in this world is beginning to be so topsy-turvy that those who do injury are considered worthy, those who defend themselves are criminals, and the states . . . which limit themselves to securing...
...latest safari added little more to international understanding than this curious assessment of Franco and Salazar, but the Hearst Task Force was only running to form. Born in 1955 on a Hearstian impulse-when Bill decided to visit the Kremlin but did not want to go alone-the team demonstrated from the start a built-in capacity for missing the point. Accompanied to Moscow by Conniff and Hearstling Joseph Kingsbury Smith (now publisher of Hearst's New York Journal-American), Bill Hearst suspiciously searched his rooms for hidden mikes, bucked the usual language difficulties (the waitress brought sheep...