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Even aides of President Francisco Costa Gomes acknowledged privately that the Communist-leaning Gonçalves had been irredeemably discredited. In the course of a 2½-hour meeting at Belem Palace, Costa Gomes reportedly asked Socialist Leader Mário Soares for a six weeks' grace period to arrange Gonçalves' resignation and restore political parties to representation in the government. Soares rejected the proposal. Soon afterward, he was backed by 7,000 Socialists who marched on Belem Palace shouting "Vasco must resign...
...President, Costa Gomes has done away with much of the pomp and ceremony that previously surrounded the office. He rarely wears a uniform and is not excessively demanding of his staff, with whom he maintains a casual, non-military relationship. They show up at the presidential offices in Belem Palace in shirtsleeves without ties and call Costa Gomes "Chico," short for Francisco. He is said to be an easygoing boss. Married and the father of one son aged 19, he has a quiet, unassuming private life; his main amusements are horseback riding and swimming. Occasionally, he will visit musical cabaret...
Reactionary Adventures. As soon as the uprising erupted, the government rushed reinforcements into position around the presidential palace at Belem and the headquarters of the rightist Republican National Guard. Less than three hours after the aerial attack, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gongalves announced that the coup had been crushed. That night President Francisco da Costa Gomes denounced it as "a reactionary adventure" designed to disrupt the forthcoming elections and named his old friend, former President António de Spínola, 64, as its leader...
Last week his government took two key steps toward imposing restraints on Portugal's new-found sense of freedom. Since the coup, Portugal has been virtually paralyzed by a succession of strikes and work stoppages. From Belem Palace, Spinola asked for tough new guidelines on pay raises for the unions. He also succeeded in ending a three-day strike of postal workers by warning them that if they did not return to their jobs he would send in the army to sort the mail. Military arm-twisting was also used to end a month-long walkout at the Timex...
...almost parallel to it, the Transamazonian Highway project is already being billed by President Emilio G. Medici's military regime as the work of the century. Not since the feverish 1950s, when former President Juscelino Kubitschek built the city of Brasilia and had the 1,350-mile Belem-Brasilia highway carved out of the jungle, have Brazilians responded with such a display of national pride to the challenge of conquering their last natural frontier...