Word: salazarism
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...Guards on horseback charged with flashing sabers. Shots rang out; stones were flung; 50 people were injured. In Delgado's lusty campaigning last week. Portugal saw more mob violence and bloodshed than in all the previous 25 years of the paternal dictatorship of scholarly Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
...Baby-Kisser. Periodically, Benevolent Despot Salazar permits Portugal to vote for a rubber-stamp National Assembly or a tame President. The elections are always won by Salazar's National Union Party, and the rules are peculiar: 1) the opposition may campaign for only 30 days, 2) traditionally, the opposition presidential candidates withdraw before election day, 3) anyone who is in opposition must submit to being labeled Communist. 4) Portuguese law firmly prohibits demonstrations of any kind in the streets...
...candidates for this year's presidential election, scheduled for June 8, are Salazar's man, Admiral Americo Tomas, who is not even bothering to campaign, a left-wing lawyer named Arlindo Vicente, and the rule-breaking Humberto Delgado. An Air Force general who long and loyally served the regime ("A government of tyranny. I know. I was in it for 30 years"), Delgado, 52, spent the last five years in the U.S. as Portuguese Military Representative to NATO. His handshaking, baby-kissing tactics may result from his having witnessed two U.S. presidential elections, but his tubthumping, demagogic oratory...
Romantic Movement. By missing Vice Admiral Ruben Piedrahita, the fifth man in the junta, the rebels made the fatal mistake in their comedy-of-errors revolt. A little after 3 a.m., Piedrahita got a phone call from Public Works Minister Roberto Salazar, a neighbor of kidnaped General Fonseca. "There's a plot against the government," gasped Salazar. "They've taken the generals and are coming for you. You must be dressed when I come by your house." Piedrahita scrambled into his uniform and climbed down the fire escape of his apartment building as Salazar drove...
...went to work on the M.D.N. with threats and blandishments. He sent out a radio call for his followers all over the country to march on the capital, threatened to investigate graft by M.D.N. leaders and "jail them as thieves." But behind the scenes he talked smoothly with Cruz Salazar about the need for "national unity" against Communism. Bowing to the best hope for peace. Cruz Salazar accepted the offer of M.D.N. participation in the Cabinet, an ambassadorial post for himself. Some militant M.D.N. Congressmen cried sellout, but enough will probably go along to give Ydigoras his majority. With...