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...recently won-and increasingly unruly -freedom. Suddenly, in the midst of a skit in which an actor impersonating the former Catholic patriarch of Lisbon was blessing the old secret police, the screen went blank. A few minutes later, a woman announcer appeared to say that a representative of the junta had ordered the program off the air. Four days earlier, in the small hours of the morning, plain-clothes police had knocked on the door of José Luis Saldanha Sanches, 29, a Maoist editor, and arrested him for publishing an article that urged Africa-bound soldiers to desert...
...were the first acts of censorship carried out by the Armed Forces Movement since it seized power April 25. Before the week was out, the government had taken full control of the television network, but it was the editor's arrest that touched at the heart of the junta's key problem: how to get out of Africa. That arduous process hit several distinct bumps last week, and there is the jarring prospect of more still to come...
...died when Chile's upper classes decided that democracy couldn't extend to working people. But because Allende devoted his life to the oppressed, because he tried to see that the undernourished children of the slums of Santiago would have milk to drink, he stands for all the Chilean junta's victims. For more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power over the places where they worked--over their own lives, in the last analysis--without violence, without infringing on traditional liberties...
Restraint in Portugal is dependent on a resolution of the fighting in Africa. Already the junta has gone beyond what Spinola last month envisioned for the three territories: a loose federation with Lisbon. Full independence is now regarded as inevitable. Talks have already begun in London with the representatives of insurgents in Guinea, smallest of the territories and the one that Portugal finds it easiest to set free...
...have large white populations and big Portuguese economic investments. In neither territory, moreover, can the principal guerrilla movements claim, as they can in Guinea, to speak for most blacks. Yet unrest in Portugal makes one thing clear: the country has no more stomach for war in Africa, and the junta will have to grant the African territories freedom, whatever its shape and form. "There is no doubt about it," says Henrique Scares de Melo, a white lawyer in Mozambique who is expected to be named soon to head an interim territorial government. "It may be a Marxist government...