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Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, invited to speak at Harvard by the Center for European Studies (CES) and also by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been refused permission to leave Portugal by the General Chief of Staff, Pedro Cardosa...
...Carvalho, a prominent figure in the Portugese Revolution of 1975, ran in the presidential election in 1976 as an independent and came in second, receiving 16.5 per cent of the vote. Carvalho was also influential in preparing liberation treaties for Mozambique and Angola...
Tomas Harlan, director of the film "Torre Bella," a documentary on the Portugese Revolution, who helped invite Carvalho to MIT, said yesterday Carvalho received a visa from the United States but was summoned later by Cardosa who told Carvalho that he did not want Carvalho creating publicity by visiting the United States. Cardosa added that if Carvalho should try to leave the country, he would be arrested immediately, Harlan reported...
Harlan said Carvalho received a written statement from Cardosa citing five reasons why the government would not grant permission for Carvalho to leave Portugal...
Radical newspapers of both the left and right pointed out that the populist General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho had been condemned by the Socialists and moderate officers for condoning distribution of army weapons to leftist workers...