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...coup were heady indeed. But last week, with the inevitability of a hangover the morning after a once-in-a-lifetime celebration, confusion and economic unrest replaced some of the jubilation. Portugal's troubles in Africa seemed as intractable as ever, and the sudden lifting of repression in Lisbon was spawning such ferment that it could lead to political chaos...
...industrialists and the oligarchic "100 families" who virtually own the economy have been desperately maneuvering and power-brokering to keep the junta from making concessions to restive workers. The junta's headquarters in the Presidential Palace has been besieged daily by laborers petitioning for better conditions and pay. Lisbon postal clerks, who now earn about 4,000 escudos ($160) a month, erected a banner demanding higher wages. The banner originally called for 6,000 escudos, but by week's end the figure had been raised...
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...
Mozambicans-black, white and brown-are still somewhat stunned by what happened in Lisbon. The great majority seem pleased at the pronouncements from Portugal; yet there is little open ebullience. The most emotional scene was at the grim Machava prison on the outskirts of Lourenço Marques. The first 554 of an estimated 12,000 prisoners locked up by the secret police for helping FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front) were set free in a moving ceremony on May Day. A large crowd, including many whites, gathered to embrace the released prisoners, most of whom admitted to reporters that they...
...nola, and would instead declare Mozambique a white independent nation. But Army Commander in Chief General Basto Machado sent a company of paratroopers from the northern combat area to Lourenço Marques as a precaution, and in the end, Dos Santos and his family flew quietly back to Lisbon. In the African possessions of Angola and Portuguese Guinea also, the Governors General peacefully surrendered their jobs. Nonetheless, in all three provinces the chief guerrilla leaders have already declared their intention to fight on, regardless of the reforms promised by Spínola...