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1. PORTUGAL! THE PORTUGUESE SOCIALIST PARTY LAUNCHED ITS CA PAIGN FOR THE "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION ON APRILISPLAY OF EUROPEAN SOCIALIST SOLIDARITY IN PORTO THIS PAST WEEKEND, BUT THE SOCIALISTS MAY HAVEIGH PRICE IN TERMS OF FUTURE COOPERATION UITH THE RIVAL CENTRIST POPULAR DEMOCRATIC PARTY.Y

SEEKING TO CAPITALIZE ON HIS STATUS AS THE MOSTOF PORTUGAL'S INTERESTS ABROAD, SOCIALISTSOARESEETING OF EUROPE'S HOSTAND SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LEADERS- TAKING THEIRAN APPEALOARESETTER ECONOMIC DEALTHE ASSEMBLED LEADERS-INCLUDING HEADS OF

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the communists also protested the socialist meeting, albeit in much milder terms"than the popularcommunist party leader alvaro cunhal said that the meeting was "in bad taste" and that it was an attempt to pressure the voters prior to the election.v

the guarded nature of cunhal's comments, madeational party conference, reflect his current strategy of attempting to draw closer to the socialists in hopes of achieving an electiontrategy that the conference formally reconfirmed-cunhal said that this was the only way to wardeturn to fascism and that an election victory by the popular democrats and the center-right social democratic center would plunge the country intoark night of terror and blood-

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