Word: salazarism
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...Europe. One is square, massive Angola (pop. 4,500,000), which sprawls below the Congo along 1,100 miles of the western Atlantic shore, where Lisbon's navigators arrived in the isth century. Across the continent is the other half of Dictator-Premier António de Oliveira Salazar's African empire, Mozambique (pop. 6,300,000), whose Indian Ocean ports are among the best on the east coast. In both, the populations are sealed off from the outside world with ruthless efficiency by a European regime that openly proclaims its intention to hang on to them indefinitely...
...first glance, Salazar's Africa seems a verdant paradise, for it is free of the ugly racist rules white men have installed elsewhere. In Luanda, hot, bustling capital of Angola, blacks ride the same elevators as whites in the gleaming modern office buildings, and share the same queues at post offices and bus stops. In Mozambique's busy Lourenço Marques, no one bothers to lock the door of his house or take the keys out of his parked car, and it is safe for whites to walk the darkest alleys at midnight; everywhere, the natives...
...PEDRO G. SALAZAR...
...Sign Mistaken. To keep everything going smoothly, Lopez Mateos last year asked leaders of government workers' unions-including the railwaymen's Redlining Demetrio Vallejo and the teachers' Othón Salazar-to postpone wage demands for one year until Lopez Mateos could pay off some inherited government debts. Vallejo took the request as a sign of weakness and in March 1959 called a wildcat strike. Lopez Mateos cracked down hard, threw Vallejo and 2,600 other railwaymen into jail. Vallejo and about 500 strikers have been there ever since without trial. Ex-President Cardenas, still a hero...
...Visage. Leaving Lisbon the next day, the President seemed rested, and smiled frequently, but there was a gravity in his face that seemed to pull each smile back into a lined, discouraged expression. He bade farewell to Tomas and Salazar, turned to climb the ramp into his plane. Then, as if suddenly aware that he was headed home, he stopped after three steps; his face sagged, and he stood still for a full four seconds. Then, with an effort, he pulled his shoulders back, and turning to face the airport crowds, he grinned and clasped his hands together overhead...