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Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, leader of Estado Novo and PM of Portugal, is offered a hand when getting out of his chair in 1968 (or puts down a towel when getting out of the bath, depending on which account you believe). As a result, he does not fall and suffer a subsequent stroke. He lives to a riper old age, dying on January 17, 1990 of pneumonia at age 100.

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Note: a Carnation Revolution event is still possible; all I specified was his death date, not the way the rest of his life went. He could have died as PM of Portugal, or he could have died in exile after being overthrown in a left-wing military coup like his OTL successor, Marcelo Caetano, did in Brazil in 1980. Or anything in between. You decide!
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