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Politics must appear particularly unattractive to him now. As the junta's choice to head the state until general elections are held next spring, Spinola will preside over one of the most disparate ruling coalitions in the Western world. The 14-man interim Cabinet consists of three Socialists, two Communists, three left-centrists, five independents and one military officer. The Cabinet does not include members of the junior officer corps that initiated the April 25 "captains' coup" and deposed Premier Marcello Caetano...
Emboldened union leaders were threatening strikes against a number of big companies, including the privately owned National Steel Works. Civil servants were holding union meetings during working hours so frequently that the junta departed from its rhetoric of permissiveness long enough to warn that if such disruptions continued, they would be regarded as "insubordination against the Armed Forces Movement...
Despite occasional lapses into precoup type threats, the junta has already made good on its commitment to liberalize Portugal's stifling fascist culture. A judge in Lisbon last week summarily dismissed charges against three women on trial for writing an outspoken feminist tract. The authors, known as "the three Marias," had been arrested by the old regime and accused of "outraging public morals" and "abusing the freedom of the press" (TIME, July 23). In clearing them, Judge Artur Lopes Cardoso urged Maria Velho da Costa, Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Teresa Horta to continue writing "works...
Grim Outlook. While the situation inside Portugal was for the moment merely unsettled, the outlook in the country's African territories was getting grim. The junta wants to elevate Portuguese Guinea, Mozambique and Angola to membership in a multiracial federation in which the territories would be granted a measure of autonomy but not independence. This scheme satisfies neither the colonialists nor the colonials. General Francisco Costa Gomes, the armed forces commander in chief, made a sudden flying visit to Angola to reassure the 750,000 white settlers there that "Mother Portugal" would not abandon them. He was obviously concerned...
...junta has no intention of granting independence now. Even as small numbers of the thousands of young Portuguese who fled their country to escape the draft began trickling back last week, troops were boarding transports at Portela airport to be flown to combat areas in the territories...