Word: salazarism
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Spies in the Consulates. The heavy hand of Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar's political police, the P.I.D.E., reached into every corner of the province. Some 150 Angolans were arrested and thrown in jail as politically suspect. Most conspicuous prisoner was the Roman Catholic vicar general of Angola, Msgr. Manuel Mendes das Neves, 70, a distinguished mulatto churchman whose principal crime was his outspoken sermons advocating African rights. All foreign newsmen are kept under surveillance, their phone calls tapped, their cables censored. Even foreign consulates are watched. Said one diplomat: "There is not a single local employee...
...troubled Portuguese African colony of Angola, 150 settlers have been slaughtered in the past fortnight in a rash of terrorist raids led by Angola blacks who live near the Congolese border. Already Portuguese Dictator Antonio Salazar's forces have evacuated 3,500 terrified whites from northern Angola. Thirty thousand Portuguese soldiers crash about in pelting rainstorms, hunting the sizable terrorist bands thought to be still at large...
...Viva Portugal! Viva Salazar!" roared the crowd of 80,000 jamming the dock area in Lisbon. Jet fighters of the Portuguese air force whined overhead, tugboats and pleasure craft blew their whistles as the 20,906-ton liner Santa Maria last week steamed majestically up the Tagus River, back in its home port and in Portuguese control after its twelve-day captivity by rebel Captain Henrique Galv...
Even aging Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, 71, who rarely appears in public, was on hand for the gala occasion. Well guarded by police, Salazar boarded the Santa Maria, smiled benignly from the bridge for 30 minutes of vivas by the crowd, then descended to the ship's chapel to pray at the flower-decked casket of the young third pilot, the only fatality in the rebel capture of the Santa Maria. Across the wide Atlantic in Brazil, where he is enjoying asylum, rebel Captain Galvão added his own carnival note to the saga...
Portuguese officials insisted that the delirious joy in Portugal at the ship's return-and the failure of the revolt against Salazar-was equaled only by the joy in the "overseas provinces" of the nation's far-flung empire. But then officials were stunned by news of renewed and savage rioting in Portugal's restless African colony of Angola, and began spluttering denials of the reports trickling out through the colonial censorship. From the capital city of Luanda came word that swarms of Africans hurled themselves against a police station and were methodically mowed down by automatic...