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...profiles of the candidates were written by: Thomas S. Blanton, David N. Carvalho, Stephen J. Chapman, James J. Cramer, Henry Griggs, David B. Hilder, Thomas W. Janes, Daniel E. Larkin and Charles E. Shepherd...
...perhaps without much resistance, since the beginning of the revolution, and most of them are in the hands of leftists. When an officer of COPCON, Portugal's internal-security police, recently admitted that he had given 1,500 automatic rifles to left-wing civilians, General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, COPCON's openly radical chief, implicitly defended him by boasting: "If there were a revolution, I would arm the people myself." Saraiva de Carvalho, who has given only tentative support to the Pinheiro de Azevedo government, has also warned: "If I see a turn to the right, I will...
...even that is not certain. Says a Western diplomat of Saraiva de Carvalho: "He wants to run with the hare and ride with the hounds." As COPCON chief...
Saraiva de Carvalho was responsible for enforcing the Premier's order to seize the broadcasting stations. When he met with the radio and television network chiefs at the Ministry of Information early in the week, he strongly urged compliance and scourged them for creating the kind of tense political climate that could lead to a right-wing coup. Later, when confronted by a leftist mob outside the ministry, he silenced their jeers by saying that he was only carrying out orders; when the crowd suggested that he join them in a protest march on the Premier's palace...
Meanwhile, the right continues to agitate--from the North, from Spain, and perhaps from Washington (although there is little direct U.S. financial interest in Portugal, save ITT). And Carvalho speaks of defending the workers' revolution with "very hard repression, which we have avoided up to now." In the words of a poster in Lisbon, he and his working class constituency, if they hope to avoid counterrevolution, had better be like steel in the coming months...