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...transcripts are, because it is an inspiring example of a people trying to take government into their own hands--something the American people's elected representatives in Congress are shamefully reluctant to do. And the parallel goes further than that. Getting rid of Marcello Caetano and replacing him with Antonio de Spinola didn't guarantee real change any more than replacing Richard Nixon with Gerald Ford would--but without that spur thousands of Portuguese would not have taken to the streets, no longer afraid of the fascist police who'd tortured dissenters for 46 years. In the same way, getting...
...General Antonio de Spinola, the head of the Portuguese junta, has said he favors the establishment of a Portuguese federation of allied autonomous states, including Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Angola...
...fate of all of the colonies will be determined to some extent--but by no means wholly--by the outcome of the political contest now going on in Portugal in the aftermath of the coup. The leader who has emerged most prominently is an unlikely liberal, Gen. Antonio de Spinola...
...important though it was, for the prospect of earlier self-rule it raises for Portugal's rebelling African colonies and for the tremendous joy and revolutionary spirit it set off in Portugal itself--has ironies enough to make it a good symbol for the last year's limited advances. Antonio de Spinola, the country's new strong man, has no great democratic biography--his military service came as a Fascist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, as an observer with the German army in World War II, and as a commander with Portugal's colonial army in Guinea-Bissau...
Rogers added that General Antonio de Spinola, the head of the Portuguese junta, has never favored complete independence for the three colonies...