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ONLY a few hours before the 15 NATO foreign ministers met in Lisbon last week, a powerful bomb exploded at the city's central telephone and telegraph office, severing communications with the outside world. Later, three more bombs, presumably planted by left-wing terrorists to embarrass the government, went off in the Portuguese capital. The blasts in no way distracted the NATO ministers from an urgent and potentially historic task. That was to formulate a reply to Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who late last month called on NATO to "taste the wine" of Russian intentions on force reductions...
...offbeat sense of humor. During one of the Common Market's recent ministerial bargaining sessions, he shocked his colleagues by doffing his shoes and slipping on bright red knit socks. "Makes me shorter and I can think better," he explained. At last week's Lisbon meeting, he slipped off his shoes, revealing bright green socks. Occasionally he sports suspenders decorated with small gold-plated elephants...
WHEN the 15 NATO Foreign Ministers assemble in Lisbon's walled Palácio das Necessidades this week, their meeting may prove as important as any since the alliance's present form was set in 1952-also in Lisbon. Only a few weeks ago, the Ministers seemed destined to cover routine and well-traveled ground. But suddenly, some long-standing barriers to East-West negotiations have been lowered, however slightly...
...black South African student, discussed the current status of the guerrilla movements fighting the Portuguese in Mozambique and Angola. He said that nine of 15 provinces in Angola are now controlled by the liberation forces, but that the recent American decision to sell two Boeing 707s to the Lisbon government (which Enteta claims the Portuguese will use to transport troops and material to their African colonies) indicates an American commitment to supporting the Caetano regime...
...South Africa and Rhodesia) and with the Portuguese territories. At the time of independence, many Black African leaders predicted that the white regimes would be toppled within five or ten years. Now they know better. Guerrillas have harassed Portuguese Guinea, Mozambique and Angola, but there is no indication that Lisbon is ready to withdraw...