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Portuguese Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemao started the first-ever state visit of a Portuguese leader to Canada yesterday with a whirlwind tour(...)
Portuguese Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemao started the first-ever state visit of a Portuguese leader to Canada yesterday with a whirlwind tour(...)

Portuguese Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemao started the first-ever state visit of a Portuguese leader to Canada yesterday with a whirlwind tour(...)

Date10/4/1982
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Original Toronto Star caption: Portuguese Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemao started the first-ever state visit of a Portuguese leader to Canada yesterday with a whirlwind tour of Toronto that included lunch and dinner with Prime Minister Pierre Turdeau. Balsemao, 45, accompanied by his wife and 16 officials of his Democratic Alliance government, also met Ontario Premier William Davis at Queen's Park and mingled warmly with about 100 members of Toronto's Portuguese community at Harbourfront. The Portuguese leader a lawyer and former magazine editor, who heads the 14th government since a 1974 revolution turned Portugal into a precarious democracy, was given a full-dress mili- [Incomplete]
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0030627F
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