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...prosperous market town 20 miles north of Oporto, Communists shot at attacking conservative militants, wounding several. Two days later, troops dispatched to protect Communist headquarters there opened fire and killed two people, a 34-year-old rightist militant and a 19-year-old male nurse named Luis Barroso, a member of the centrist Popular Democrats. Furious, hundreds of anti-Communists broke through an infantry cordon and ransacked the building...
...most startling move was permitting Dr. Mario Soares to return from exile. A lawyer and left-wing democrat, Soares was so persistent a foe of Dictator Salazar that he was jailed twelve times, mostly without trial or charges. His wife, Maria Barroso, one of Portugal's finest actresses, was dismissed from the national theater and could only perform with special government authorization. During his investigation of the mysterious 1965 murder of Humberto Delgado,* Soares publicly incriminated a member of the Portuguese secret police. Later, when Soares was unjustly suspected of feeding details to foreign newsmen about a teen...
Morocco's King Mohammed V declines to admit that the 12,000-man Liberation Army even exists. To repeated protests of the army's "aggressions," complained Spain's War Minister Antonio Barroso recently, all Spain has got back "are replies that Spain was responsible for them...
...Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso nosed past Sugar Loaf into Guanabara Bay last week, jet planes circled in the sky and shore batteries roared a royal 21-gun salute. On the cruiser's fantail, beneath the old imperial colors,* lay two oak coffins. They contained the remains of Princess Isabel of Braganza and her French consort, Gaston Count d'Eu. Brazil was honoring a national heroine, the princess who freed the slaves...
...50th anniversary of the "Golden Law," as the emancipation act became known, President Getulio Vargas decreed that the princess' remains should be brought home. The outbreak of World War II delayed the project, and almost 15 years passed before Vargas was back in office again. When the cruiser Barroso sailed for the British coronation ceremonies, it afforded an opportunity to bring the princess home in state...