Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 31, 1970, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday. January 31, 1970 portuguese opposition Leader plans raids hijackings 9y Adam Mayo London special the sunday times Herminio a Palma Inacio 47, Brown eyes greying sideburns and wanted passionately by the portuguese police sat at his ease in a quiet London suburb. A Palma Inacio has now achieved the uncomfortable status of Leader of the activist armed opposition to the Portu Guese regime. Since the murder of Gen. Humberto Delgado in 1965 and the virtual retirement to South America of Captain liner Santa foreign news exclusive a the cation that replaced la he fiercely details in what or. Palma sees with a characteristic mixture of opened they had to find the two the pyrenees into France on Palma was ready to escape nothing else for it and time was As a highly articulated system something approaching Genius managers who carried keys foot. But he could not make the running out. He quickly climbed of repression. And near farce. This took nearly an hour. Finally it quite a Good opera attempt until it rained. Outside the Wall and Fence and jumped physically or. Palma is a or. Palma planned to escape they locked the managers up in says or. Palma. It was h s window there was a court Down into the Street in a Blind Rangy Man with powerful hands from Figueria a Foz by plane the vault and made their exit carefully prepared and for the Ard constantly patrolled by a Angle Between the sentry Box emerging from Well kept cuffs after raiding the Bank and carrying four potato bags stuff first time m 40-Odd years of guard with a machine gun. And the Wall. The space was so his style is laconic with a i although he had been a wanted de with Bank notes. Dictatorship the opposition had around three sides of this Yard Small that he could not lower marked tendency to underplay Man in Portugal for 20 years. Arriving at the Airport Well the raid helped Loo in there was a lean to roof and his hands from above his head anecdote the most Bondish bits he spent months before the behind schedule. Or. Palma fortifying or Palma s own when it rained the sentry he paused in this Odd position have to be dragged out of him robbery hanging around the guard to fuel a position among his fellow re sheltered underneath. To see if he had been heard by by friends who have heard it local Airport pretending to be an plane. Then politely but firmly. Volution Aries. T rained lip of the sentry in the Box. Nothing before and know where the archaeologist crazy about Aerial. He and his men bound the it took the p o r t u g u e s c 7 the happened so he simply walked Climax should come. Photography. Guard his wife and their 12 authorities four months to in away Down the Street. If his dream of armed. He won the Confidence of the year old son. Dut when the wife cover who was responsible for1 prom path hopped out insurrection in Portugal Fol a Airfield guard and also of the Lowed by Freedom for the Airfield s director with whom people seems to an outsider j or. Palma flew on several up a record of daring and violent insurrectionary action quixotic and romantic in the the 180-Day detention Best iberian tradition he him Law on which South Africa s self discusses it in terms of the similar Law is modelled and of j immediate practicalities. His most notable coup to Date Viu Trul . J which gives him an undisputed the decree Law pre Eminence in this Branch of i this allows any portuguese has been the raid on a Branch portuguese affairs. Subject to be kept in prison of the official Bank of Portugal his exploits Are a mixed bag i charge for three years in the Little town of Figueira a including the hijacking of. An a bondage indefinitely renew Foz m May 1967. Thought it Airliner a million Dollar Bank raid in 1967 and an abortive attempt in 1968 to capture a whole City. Now with a 30-year prison sentence already passed on him and a Cash Price on his head he has reached London after break ing out of a portuguese jail last year with considerable Bravura. This was followed by fresh imprisonment in Madrid and finally the rejection by the Spanish courts of a portuguese request for his extradition. On Jan. 7 a fresh trial on Bank robbery charges opens against him in Lisbon. Or. Palma does not plan to attend. His visit to London is for family reasons he has a sister settled Here but he will soon be off to other european capitals to plot further disturbance for the portuguese government now headed by professor Marcelo Caetano. We will keep the fight says or. Palma. That s what came out of jail in common with other opponents of the portuguese regime he maintains that the illness and retirement of the aged dictator Antonio de Oliverira Salazar has made no difference to what is happening inside the country. It is a change of name not of sub he argues for example that the suppression by prime mini Ster Caetano of the much feared Security police the pide is a meaningless gesture the same men hold exactly the same Wilson remains hopeful Able at the pleasure of the government. These however Are Mere would be a Good idea if Salazar paid for the says p Hesed that i a toe to Bank Robert a toe to it if Lee m Hahn Mihov n i j a t la has Bell a Lac " Ossed the three him in court but in his absence and one half years fed and changed her child. She managed to resist the extradia a of wire Fence on top of a imprisonment to add to the 14. After Flovine to Southern pm mfg u ;