Leftists fight to stop reforms
NZPA-Reuter Lisbon Portuguese riot policemen sent from Lisbon clashed twice with Left-wing demonstrators in the Alentejo farming town of Evort yesterday in the first serious violence reported since Parliament approved controversial new agrarian reforms nearly three weeks ago. Unofficial reports quoted by the State radio said at least 70 persons had been injured in incidents on Tuesday and yesterday involving demonstrators and security forces.
The police have declined to confirm this figure, saying that an official statement may be issued later.
The trouble began when workers from a communistrun co-operative tried to prevent Government officials from marking out an area of expropriated land reserved for its former owners under the new reform law. A detachment of paramilitary Republican guards intervened after some workers threw themselves down in front of a tractor marking out the area with a trench.
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Press, 1 September 1977, Page 8
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