Portugal Settles 'red Light' Row

Advertising from the Portuguese government reappeared in Time magazine yesterday for the first time since it reacted angrily to a cover story which described the small northern Portuguese town of Braganza as Europe's "new red light district".

The government said it had quickly patched up the row, and dropped a threat to withdraw advertising, after Time apologised for not warning it that an October 20 story about an invasion of Brazilian prostitutes in Braganza would appear at the same time as a double-page tourism advertisement for next year's Euro 2004 soccer finals in Portugal.

The advertisements, however, failed to appear in the next two editions of Time, while continuing to run in at least one other international magazine. Time said that this was because no dates had been previously specified for them to appear.