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That oft-told Lisbon wheeze reflected widespread doubts about how long the government of Socialist Premier Mario Scares could stay in office. Last week, though, the Socialists-like Mark Twain-could claim that reports of their demise had been greatly exaggerated. In crucial balloting for 45,000 local officials and mayoralties, the Socialists confounded their political opponents and, in spite of a divisive intraparty fight, won what amounted to a qualified vote of confidence for Scares...
...parcels chosen to be returned, and Communist Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal warned that the Socialists will now "have to respect the will of the people in the Alentejo." Agriculture Minister Antonio Barreto temporarily suspended government credit to some cooperatives that had not rendered accounts and warned that Lisbon will not allow the Alentejo to become a Communist state-within-a-state...
...historic event that sealed the fate of white Rhodesia and changed the life of every white man in Africa south of the Zambezi River was the Portuguese revolution in April 1974. The military coup against the Caetano government in Lisbon led the following year to the granting of independence to Mozambique and Angola ? something the old regime vowed would never happen. Before 1975, Mozambique and Angola were Portuguese colonies that served as bulwarks against the southward march of African nationalism; after 1975, their Marxist governments became directly involved in the black struggle to overthrow the remaining white minority regimes...
...Saraiva de Carvalho, who will soon face trial for his alleged part in the leftist uprising that Eanes put down last fall, preached "people's power" during the campaign and called for the creation of workers' assemblies that would eventually do away with parliamentary democracy. In the Lisbon industrial belt, particularly in big factory towns like Setubal, Saraiva de Carvalho's appeal swayed as many as 40% of the voters...
...Eanes becomes President, it will be less because the voters like him than because they fear the alternatives. A stern, aloof, ramrod-stiff disciplinarian, Eanes served in all three of Portugal's former African territories, joined the 1973 so-called "captains' revolt" against Lisbon's effort to contain the black struggle for independence, and actively supported Spinola at the time of the April revolution. Eanes is credited with lancing the rebellion last November that nearly led to a leftist dictatorship...