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Author Wolfe claims that his story, which turns on two attempts on Trotsky's life, follows the facts. The account of the assassination relies on General Sanchez Salazar, Mexican chief of secret police, whose Murder in Mexico established beyond much doubt that the man who murdered Trotsky was in fact a Stalinist agent. Wolfe's picture is drawn against the background of what must have been one of the strangest households in the world-young bodyguards filling sandbags and filing correspondence for revolution's exiled royalty. About the house in Coyoacán, six miles south...
Spain is still a dictatorship, but not so severely as it once was. It is more prosperous than it used to be-though still the poorest nation in Western Europe, outside its next-door neighbor Portugal, where a fellow dictator, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, is Franco's only senior in office...
...French electorate when submitted to a yes-or-no popular referendum Oct. 5, De Gaulle's constitution would give France a form of government unique in the Western world, a curious casserole of traditional French, British and U.S. institutions seasoned with just a soupçon of Salazar's Portugal. Implicit in almost every clause of the draft version is a profound determination to clip the wings of the negative and vacillating National Assembly which, under the Fourth Republic, used its untrammeled power to make and smash 25 governments in twelve years. Under the projected Fifth Republic...
Hereafter Portugal's President would be chosen by the National Assembly and the Corporative Chamber, both 100% subservient to Salazar, rather than by the people, Salazar indicated in a rare, hour-long televised speech last week. Salazar admitted that "there may be errors, injustices, deficiencies, delays, abuses" in his regime, but he still thought it fine. "It is," he said, "inconvenient to have an opposition party...
Press censorship will continue, he added, because "the problem is extraordinarily difficult, and a satisfactory solution has not been found." Addressing himself to Portugal's workers, among the worst paid in Western Europe, Salazar warned: "Strikes are a crime. We are obliged to handle them with extreme harshness, although with bleeding heart...