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...lead a campaign for reform and liberalization. For most of his 64 years he has been a stern authoritarian. The son of a top financial adviser to Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, he was a volunteer fighter on the Franco side in the Spanish Civil War, commanding a detachment of other Portuguese volunteers. A few years later, the Portuguese high command, recognizing his potential, sent him to Nazi Germany for training with the then invincible Wehrmacht. From the German side he watched the siege of Leningrad...
When African rebels began challenging Portuguese rule in Angola in 1961, Spínola once again was an early volunteer. Brought home after three years, his chest festooned with ribbons and medals, he was made second in command of Portugal's National Republican Guard, a paramilitary police force. In 1968 he was sent back to Africa as commander in chief and military governor of the territory of Portuguese Guinea, where he served until he returned to Lisbon last summer to receive the Order of the Tower and the Sword with Palm, Portugal's highest military honor...
...Chicago, James Rochford was named the new police superintendent after the convictions of 48 cops in the past three years and the firing or forced resignations of 407 members of the force. Two weeks ago, after 72 top officers took lie detector tests, Rochford gave the force its biggest command shakeup ever; 60 of the highest-ranking men were moved up, down or around...
...Radcliffe junior varsity had little trouble in its race, taking command at the start and whipping the Terrier J.V.'s by eight seats...
...true. Cambridge barely seems to have enough walls, cornerstones or gates to support the inscriptions people passing through leave behind. Here four citizens were killed by British soldiers. There Washington took command of the Continental Army. Over in that church the organ pipes were melted down for bullets. History has left its graffiti throughout the town...