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Pinheiro de Azevedo has managed to rally popular support for his brand of compromise politics. Aware of this, the left last week moved stridently to block him. A rally by Socialists and Popular Democrats in Lisbon's Terreiro de Paço Square in support of the Premier's programs was interrupted by radical leftist hecklers and then panicked by charging military police, who fired over the crowd and flailed spectators with rifle butts. After tear gas was mysteriously touched off, Pinheiro de Azevedo concluded his remarks with weepy eyes and wet cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: To the Brink of Chaos Again | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

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