For Paris Correspondent George Taber, it was a routine background lunch. Assigned to keep a running watch on events in Portugal, Taber talked politics in a Right Bank bistro with Mário Soares, an obscure exile who was teaching Portuguese and history at a French university. Since that meeting a year and a half ago, Soares has returned home to lead Portugal's powerful Socialist Party, and Taber has visited Lisbon several times to report on "the Revolution of the Flowers" (named for the red carnations that symbolized the Armed Forces Movement).
For this week's cover story on Portugal's rapidly changing scene, Taber toured...
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