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...meetings, military feints, rumors of a coup or even a civil war -nothing seemed able to stir Portugal from its state of near-paralysis. For most of last week, as overwhelming majorities of the military and the public called for him to resign, pro-Communist Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves hung on, issuing dark warnings that if he were ousted, the Communist Party's armed militia would swing into action...
...Defensive. In fact, both appeared to be losing ground swiftly. When the Communist-dominated trade union organization, Intersindical, called a half-hour general strike as a show of support for Gonçalves, most workers simply stayed on their jobs. Even Communist Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal appeared to be backing off from his staunch support of the Premier. In talks with Costa Gomes, Cunhal said that the Communists would not make an issue of Gonçalves' ouster. Earlier, at a rally, he conceded that the moderates' manifesto had some "good points...
...Communist government of Portuguese Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves lurched closer to collapse last week (see THE WORLD), the general paused to heap invective on an unexpected enemy. "Certain organs of the Portuguese press are today bordering on the near obscene," Gonçalves roared at an audience in a high school gymnasium near Lisbon. "Their looseness with freedom impairs freedom of the press." That might seem an odd complaint from a man heading a regime that has permitted Communist-dominated unions to gag nearly all of the nation's newspapers and every television and radio station...
...advertising man, earlier this month ran an exposé of what it called a secret government plan to impose censorship and fines of up to $20,000 for sins like "neglect of duty to sensitize the population to the great national tasks." Social Communications Minister Jorge Correia Jesuino, a Gonçalves intimate, refused to discuss the scheme, but even government-controlled papers hastily denounced it. Since then, an anti-Communist slate has easily won control of the nation's 358-member journalists' union. Thirty of the 54 editorial staffers of the government-controlled daily...
...government and its Communist friends have not taken this independence lightly. All 30 of the Diário de Notícias rebels have been suspended. Meanwhile, Gonçalves has tried to rally public opinion by condemning unfriendly publications as "those rags and those libertines." More ominous are reports that the government plans to cut the supply of newsprint to dissenting newspapers-and worse. "I think that there should be one morning newspaper and one afternoon newspaper," Correia Jesuino told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott. "We can't afford to have so many newspapers...