Word: direc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first light the army was firmly in control of its own barracks, the Atlantic harbors, the airports, the radio and television stations and even the national bank. Though a few companies of the paramilitary National Republican Guard held out, together with the detested D.G.S. (Direcção Geral de Segurança) secret police, the army was clearly superior. "We have all the tanks, and we have the military experience we learned in Africa," said one rebel officer with casual contempt. "The police and the National Republican Guard have only a few obsolete armored vehicles...