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Leaflet advertising a demonstration at the New York Heart Association annual charity ball at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on May 7 that is featuring "Salute to Portugal," a theme chosen by social big-wig Mrs. William Langley (formerly Jane Pickens, radio singer). The tongue-in-cheek leaflet says Portuguese Foreign Minister Vera Franco Nogueira will "lead an invasion of 20 Portuguese couples into high New York social life" to establish closer tied between the Portuguese dictatorship and elite, influential Americans. The message of the protest to Nogueira is that representatives of the Portuguese dictatorship are not welcome here and that Americans favor a free and independent Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau, and a free Portugal. [Note: The Portuguese Foreign Minister was Alberto Franco Nogueira, and his wife was Vera Franco Nogueira. The leaflet, printed on pink paper,was heavily damaged by another, heart-shaped leaflet created for this demonstration that was printed on red construction paper.]

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DEMONSTRATE AGAINST PORTUGUESE COLONIAMLISM AND U.S. SUPPORT OF PORTUGAL

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