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| | TIME.com: Shades of Salazar -- Oct. 31, 1969 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Though the 36-year rule of Portugal's António de Oliveira Salazar ended last year, the old man is not yet aware of it. |
 | | Still immobilized after a stroke and a coma 13 months ago, Salazar calls Cabinet meetings, and his old ministers faithfully attendeven though some of them are no longer in the Cabinet. |
 | | This week voters in Europe's poorest and most calcified country went to the polls in what Salazar's successor, Premier Marcello Caetano, 63, billed as a "free election." Despite some liberalization of Portugal's election laws, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. |
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