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...miles north of Oporto, Communists shot at attacking conservative militants, wounding several. Two days later, troops dispatched to protect Communist headquarters there opened fire and killed two people, a 34-year-old rightist militant and a 19-year-old male nurse named Luis Barroso, a member of the centrist Popular Democrats. Furious, hundreds of anti-Communists broke through an infantry cordon and ransacked the building...
...that Azorians are not only patronized by the mainland Portuguese as dumb country cousins, but also pay higher taxes and higher prices than the "continentals," and 2) that the Lisbon government is drifting too far to the left. In last April's election, the Azores gave the centrist Popular Democratic Party 60% of the vote, the Socialists 25% and the Communists less than...
...dictatorship of the far right is rapidly evolving into a dictatorship of the far left. In Portugal, the dream that the April revolution would lead to a democratic and pluralistic society is fast fading, and the nation's 8 million people have only sum hope of seeing a centrist or even moderately socialist civilian government. As a mechanic in the rural town of Benedita recently put it: "The revolution is being betrayed...
...therefore concluded that Gonçalves was having great difficulty in persuading any civilians, except Communists and radical leftists, to serve in a Cabinet that would wield little real power, would be dominated by the military. Certain to be absent from the Cabinet are the moderates-the Socialists and centrist Popular Democrats, who together polled nearly two-thirds of the vote in last April's Constituent Assembly election. In opposition to the M.F.A.'s recent authoritarian measures, Socialist Party Leader Mário Soares and officials of the Popular Democrats prohibited their party colleagues from participating...
Spinola seemed to get the new regime off to a good start, appointing a Cabinet containing Socialists, Communists, left-centrists, independents and only one military officer. A centrist law professor, Adelino da Palma Carlos, was chosen Premier, Socialist Soares became Foreign Minister, while Communist Boss Cunhal was named Minister Without Portfolio. The Cabinet's ability to act, however, was severely restricted by ideological differences. On one side stood those committed to democratic processes, such as the Socialists; on the other side were those, like the Communists, who were willing to employ authoritarian means to carry out the revolution. While...