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Thailand's capital, Bangkok, offered another neutral porthole for viewing the war-from 700 miles away. In the tradition of Lisbon in World War II and Beirut through the course of Middle East conflicts, Bangkok is a marketplace of intelligence and Asia's foremost rumor mill. In hopes of assembling a credible montage, diplomats and newsmen sifted through a cacophony of refugee reports, propaganda releases and tidbits of hearsay from stateless businessmen and drifters. The results were sometimes useful, but often not. Besides the Haiphong bombing, Bangkok "sources" served up the war's next most misleading report...
...Lisbon...
Since 1974, when a military coup ended more than 40 years of fascist dictatorship, Portugal has experimented with Communism and socialism-and seen the sweet promises of revolution turn sour along with an ever more depressed economy. Last week "reformism," a freshly coined label on Lisbon's political scene, got its turn. The newly named government of Premier Carlos Alberto Mota Pinto defeated a Communist bid to deny it a vote of confidence, and thereby established itself as the fourth constitutional regime Portugal has had in three years...
...vote ended months of uncertainty over who would hold power in Lisbon. The Socialists, who are the largest party in the fractious Assembly, rejected the previous government, which was formed last summer by Alfredo Nobre da Costa, an apolitical technocrat, at the behest of President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. Eanes had just dropped Socialist Party Chief Mario Scares from the premiership after his governing coalition with the conservative Center Democrats fell apart. Scares was incensed by his ouster and was particularly upset because Eanes had not consulted the political parties before choosing Nobre da Costa. The former Premier insisted Eanes' action...
...refugees' return is a bitter blow to UNITA, which continues to harass Neto's forces from guerrilla bases in southern Angola. Savimbi, reasonably enough, fears that the returnees' technical and management skills will bolster the Neto regime. Declared a UNITA representative in Lisbon last week: "The Portuguese know the country, and through them Neto could recuperate; UNITA does not want them to go." Claiming that four people who went back to Angola had already been taken prisoner by UNITA forces, he warned that any mass exodus would put the returnees "in grave danger." That seemed...