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...Future, in which he argued that to "try to win a subversive war by military means is to accept defeat in advance." For that reason, he suggested, a political solution in the territories was the only answer. The book caused a sensation when first copies appeared in Lisbon. Spinola's iconoclastic views were well known before it was published and were widely shared by many of his fellow officers in the armed forces. He also reportedly had the ear of moderate Premier Marcello Caetano, who had succeeded to power after illness forced Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
Some of the Portuguese community leaders feel that the Portuguese are aware of the negative implications of their political heritage, but that they cannot overcome it. "They feel it," Cabral says. "Whey you take the train from Lisbon as an immigrant, there is nothing but silence. The people are sad. But when they cross the border they begin to talk and the first thing they talk against is the government. They feel the oppression there...
Harvard still owns its Gulf Oil stock, and Portugal is still in Angola. But last week made it clearer than ever that the occupation of Mass Hall was just a small part of a continuing struggle, a struggle that touches Cambridge and Lisbon as well as Angola, that extends to wherever people fight for control over their own lives and against the vestiges of imperial control. Students here shouldn't forget the Mass Hall occupation, just as they shouldn't forget the battle that went on in Portugal last week and continues in Angola today. Such struggles affect everyone...
...Portuguese government arrested up to 30 army officers yesterday after soldiers opposed to Portugal s colonial war in Africa tried to march on Lisbon and overthrow the government...
Troops loyal to Caetano crushed the uprising Saturday morning without a shot, stopping about 200 rebels in a motorized column near Lisbon...