PORTUGUESE UNEMPLOYMENT STEADY IN FIRST QUARTER
  Unemployment in Portugal held steady at
  9.6 pct in the first quarter of 1987 after the same rate in the
  last quarter of 1986, the National Statistics Institute said.
      This compared with 11.1 pct unemployment in the first
  quarter of 1986.
      The total number of registered unemployed in the first
  quarter of this year was 437,500.
  

