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...reacted like a liberated city. People joked with the soldiers guarding the main streets and squares, and long stemmed red carnations, a symbol of support for the army, appeared everywhere. Cheers and hurrahs greeted every mention of Spínola's name. Appointed to the seven-man ruling junta group that he clearly dominated, Spínola went on television with his colleagues to promise free elections "as soon as possible," a phrase later defined as some time within the next year. They also pledged to abolish the hated secret police in Portugal itself and grant full civil liberties...
General Antonio de Spinola, the head of the Portuguese junta, has said he favors the establishment of a Portuguese federation of allied autonomous states, including Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Angola...
...inspiring it by his publication last February of a book, "Portugal and the Future," which said the wars Lisbon was waging couldn't be won militarily and political solution was necessary. The 64-year-old cavalryman, who wears a monocle and carries a riding crop, rose to lead a junta after the officers who had begun the rebellion called...
Neither the U.S. nor any other outside force appears able-or eager-to pressure the regime into giving its people more freedom. Internally, the only potential threat to the junta lies in the army's supernationalistic younger officers, who are known as Gaddafists in honor of Firebrand Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The Gaddafists now support loannidis, but they could shift, as he did against Papadopoulos. Even if they do, however, the likely outcome would be tighter rule, and the Greeks would be no nearer democracy than they have been since 1967. For the foreseeable future, democracy has been effectively...
Rogers added that General Antonio de Spinola, the head of the Portuguese junta, has never favored complete independence for the three colonies...