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Last week's tension was heightened by uncertainty over the complexion and direction of the regime. The military dissolved the shaky coalition Cabinet when the last of the moderates walked out. At week's end General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, Portugal's Premier, was still trying to form a new Cabinet of military men and civilian technocrats. Meanwhile observers in Lisbon believed that a movement was mounting within the 30-man Revolutionary Council of the divided M.F.A. (Armed Forces Movement) to oust the strongly pro-Communist Gonçalves as Premier...
...starched fatigues ran up the new flag of the People's Republic of Mozambique. As tribal dancers beat animal-skin drums and a 21-gun salute boomed outside Machava Stadium, the militantly Maoist President of the new state, Samora Moises Machel, 41, embraced Portuguese Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves. Thus ended 477 years of Lisbon's colonial presence in an African territory that until 15 months ago the Portuguese had vowed they would never surrender...
Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves had already left for Belgium to attend the NATO meeting and talk with President Ford. Upon his arrival in Brussels, he said that he had gone there to tell the truth about matters in Portugal. Though he did not say so, the truth was that matters were still confused but that the prospects for the future of Portuguese democracy remained bleak...
Only Policy. Even so, at a private meeting in Brussels with left-leaning Premier Vasco Gonçalves, Ford planned to promise continued U.S. economic assistance to Portugal's moderate leftists. In addition, he will encourage other European leaders to supply all possible aid to Gonçalves' leftist coalition government in an effort to bolster the Socialists, Popular Democrats and other non-Communist leftists who won nearly 70% of the vote in the recent election. The Administration was pessimistic that U.S. and European support of the moderates will block the growing Communist control of the press...
...Armed Forces Movement's insistence upon a pact guaranteeing its control of the country's immediate political future came inopportunely in the midst of campaigning for the constituent assembly to be chosen next week. Gonçalves explained that the pact was necessary in order to preserve "the victories we have obtained in various fields, political and economic." Six of the country's twelve legal political parties ratified the plan, but some did so simply to prevent the M.F.A. from becoming a "prisoner of the Communist Party." That may happen anyway. Under the present terms...