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...HARD RAIN was falling in Lisbon last Wednesday night when the signal came for the drama to begin. It was a folk song, called "Grandola," broadcast over one of the local radio stations at half past midnight. By 6 a.m., Lisbon was completely surrounded by rebel troops; 12 hours later, Portuguese dictator Marcello Caetano surrendered, and the oldest fascist government in Europe was toppled...
Spinola, a war hero from the stalemate in Guinea-Bissau, did not lead the army revolt but is credited with 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...
...noticed news reports which said that Spanish people are driving across the border to Lisbon to experience freedom," Marichal commented
...National Assembly, Thomaz pressured Caetano into sacking Spinola and his sympathetic boss General Francisco Costa Gomes. The move caused tremors in the armed forces and set rumors afoot that a military coup might be in the offing. Ultimately, a brave but ineffectual band of 200 soldiers marched on Lisbon; the protesters were easily disarmed and all troops in Portugal were ordered confined to barracks. Rather ignominiously, some garrisons were put in the custody of the National Republican Guard, a paramilitary police force. Since then the purge has continued. Among the victims losing their jobs: the head of the Lisbon military...
...routes with TWA, which lost $21 million in January. The request raises antitrust complications and will have to be cleared by the Justice Department. If approved, the partial merger likely would allow Pan Am to abandon some foreign cities now served by both lines-London, Paris, Rome, Frankfurt and Lisbon-and pool its revenues with TWA on other international routes. TWA professes "interest" in the idea, and Vice President George Burns raises the possibility that TWA planes might fly someday with Pan Am stewardesses...