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...members of the government, warned Spínola that the rally was a cover for a countercoup led by extreme right-wing forces loyal to the old regime. The plot, according to the government, called for the assassination of both Spínola and Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves. The purported aim was to create chaos if not civil war, thus enabling the extreme right wing to seize power...
Major Vitor Alves, a Minister Without Portfolio in the Gonçalves Cabinet, told TIME'S Robert Kroon last week that other members of the government had never had any quarrel with Spínola about the revolution's fundamental aim of restoring civil liberties and holding democratic elections. "The trouble was," Alves said, "that Spínola had a different analysis of how to go about this process. He was too pessimistic, too gloomy, too rigid...
...provisional President and has allowed an unprecedented measure of political freedom. Spinola's choice for Prime Minister after Palma Carlos' ouster had been conservative Defense Minister Lieut. Colonel Mario Firmino Miguel. Instead, the A.F.M. chose one of its own: an obscure army colonel, Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 53, a left-leaning officer-engineer and chief ideologist for the A.F.M. Later in the week, Spinola announced the new 16-member Cabinet. Though Spinola had never been an active member of the A.F.M., he was pushed into power by the group because of his great prestige, and obviously...
Heavily Weighted. For the moment at least, Spínola remains in power, but the civilian phase of the Portuguese revolution seemed to be nearing an end. At week's end, Spínola named as Portugal's Premier Colonel Vasco Gonçalves, who will preside over a new military-civilian coalition government. But that was no guarantee of stability, since the young officers of the A.F.M. appear as divided as the civilians. Some officers want to pull out of Portugal's rebelling colonies completely; some want an authoritarian government while others, particularly from the navy...
...Premier is Adelino da Palma Carlos, 69, a moderate who is a law professor with a reputation as an apolitical technocrat. Alvaro Cunhal, 60, the Moscow-oriented Communist Party chief who returned from exile in Eastern Europe, was named minister without portfolio; his party deputy, Avelino Pacheco Gonçalves, 35, is Minister of Labor. Moderate Socialist Leader Mario Scares, 49, who has conducted a sweeping tour of Europe since the coup, is Portugal's new Foreign Minister...