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| | ipedia.com: António de Oliveira Salazar Article |
 | | António de Oliveira Salazar (April 28, 1889 - July 27, 1970) was the ruler of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. | | | Salazar wanted Portugal to be important internationally, and the country's large colonial holdings made this possible, while Portugal itself remained a closed state with little influence from the Western powers. | | | Salazar had a secret police named PIDE that repressed dissent. |
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| | Portugal History - Portugal Travel Team |
| | Under Salazar's “New State,” economic modernization lagged, with the result that Portugal fell increasingly behind the rest of Europe in the 1950s and 60s. | | | In 1986, the centrist Social Democratic party under Aníbal Cavaço Silva won an undisputed majority in parliament, Soares was elected to the presidency, and Portugal was admitted to the European Community (now the European Union). | | | The Socialists returned to power as a minority government after the 1995 parliamentary elections; António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres became premier. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Portugal - Government and Politics Portuguese Information Resource |
| | The country's first president elected according to the terms of the constitution also contributed significantly to the establishment of parliamentary democracy. | | | President António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes (1976-86), though of military background, abided by the new constitution and submitted to amendments that reduced his powers and returned the military to the barracks. | | | These developments were testaments that Portugal had at last found a place in the community of Western democratic nations, a remarkable transition from the long dictatorship and the subsequent periods of revolutionary upheaval and government weakness and instability. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/portugal/portugal117.html
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| | Caetano, Marcello - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education |
| | He became prime minister of Portugal in 1968 after Salazar had been incapacitated by a stroke. | | | A close associate of António de Oliveira Salazar, he was instrumental in planning the dictator's corporate form of government, the Estado Novo, and from the 1930s held various positions in the regime. | | | While adhering to the basic conservative policies of his predecessor, including retention of the Portuguese overseas colonies, suppression of dissent, and staunch anti-Communism, he initiated modest political and economic reforms. |
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http://messenger.yahooligans.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Caetano
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