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...previous [pre-April 25] government was an extreme right-wing dictatorship," he told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott before he left Lisbon. "Thus the present government will have to maintain its rudder on a leftward course. That is imperative. If we have only one year to rid ourselves of a half-century of extreme reaction, what climate do you think we should create to guarantee victory for any democratic party?" He added: "Portugal has already confirmed several times its respect for international treaties to which it is committed. There is not the slightest intention of considering leaving NATO...
...military made a mess of the Cyprus situation and the economy. Now they want the civilians to clean it up." Certainly, if the civilian government disintegrates into the bickering factions that paralyzed it in the three years before the 1967 coup or seems to be moving too far leftward, the officers would probably take over again...
...that provoke the answers people give him. His general theory is that the baby-boom generation is about to take over America, and that it doesn't believe in all the moral and working codes its predecessors did. Therefore, when the younger generations takes charge, the country will drift leftward and somehow deal with economic and population problems in ways that reflect a lessening of concern with money and status. Young people are the key to all this and hence anyone under 30 achieves oracular status in Dateline: America...
China in recent months has been undergoing a mini-Cultural Revolution. While less violent and public than the convulsion of radicalism that ravaged the country between 1966 and 1969, the current drift leftward could affect the composition and course of the leadership. One big mystery has been the position of Premier Chou Enlai. Last week China watchers had new evidence that Chou may be under increasing attack from ideological hard-liners for his pragmatic policies, especially China's developing rapprochement with the capitalist world...
...witnesses of the Cultural Revolution that racked China from 1966 to 1969, the evangelistic tone of those words from a Peking radio broadcast last week had an ominous significance. After years of relative moderation, the country seemed on the brink of yet another convulsive turn leftward...