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Hard Nose; Incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Duro Barroso has stared down soldiers and tamed Portugal's budget. His greatest challenge lies ahead.(Cover Story)(Biography)
Byline: Karen Lowry Miller (With Stefan Theil in Berlin, Stryker Mcguire in London and Tracy McNicoll in Paris)
Chaos reigned in Portugal through the summer of 1975, when Jose Manuel Duro Barroso was 19 years old. An oppressive dictatorship had been overthrown the previous year, and now Soviet-backed communists were trying to control the country. Barroso belonged to a Maoist group that had resisted the fascist regime, and he continued to fight what he saw as a new dictatorship of the left. A student leader in the University of Lisbon's law school, he knew there was a warrant for his arrest, so for most of 1975 he never slept in the same house two nights in a row. ...
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