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...call to duty from Costa Gomes and urged their followers not to revolt. Beyond that, the paratroopers inexplicably rebelled a day ahead of schedule, and ludicrous oversights allowed the moderates to retaliate. One group of rebels locked Air Force General Anibal José Pinho Freire, commander of the first Lisbon region, in his quarters-right next to his telephone. Pinho Freire not only notified his superiors of what was happening, but coolly directed air force operations from his temporary prison...
Serious Problems. One unanswered question was the role of the Communists in the coup. In Lisbon's Constituent Assembly last week, moderate party delegates charged that the Communists had actually plotted the revolt, but then had stood aside as it became evident that the uprising would fail. Communists nevertheless denied complicity in the affair. "It is clear that my party disapproves of the happenings as they turned out," said Communist Party Spokesman Carlos Brito-to hoots of laughter in the Assembly. Socialist Leader Mario Scares demanded that...
...reads one tract currently circulating in French army barracks from Bordeaux to Strasbourg. That kind of broadside might seem rather tame to soldiers in anarchic Lisbon, but it has had a jolting impact on the somnolent 330,000-man French army, which until recently might have been described as a force de nap. In response to these anonymous calls to arms, there has been a widespread effort to organize trade unions or soldiers' committees within the armed forces. Last month a group of soldiers in the 19th Engineers Regiment at Besangon in eastern France tried to organize a clandestine...
...enduring unrest in the French army is all the more dangerous because of the chilling example of Portugal. Since the April 1974 military coup in Lisbon, governments in Western Europe have been scrutinizing their armed forces-once regarded as citadels of conservatism-for dread signs of "Portugalization." French government officials believe that leftists have taken advantage of the recent military malaise to alienate the army. Defense Minister Bourges claims that Portuguese officers have been dispatched to France to spread revolution in the army and that more than 100 Frenchmen of draft age have gone to Portugal to learn subversive tactics...
Nazca ceramic pot seems to represent a hot-air bag. The researchers also found a significant clue in documents at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. These papers revealed that in 1709 a Brazilian-born Jesuit missionary named Bartholomeu de Gusmao went to Lisbon and demonstrated (74 years before France's Montgolfier brothers flew their balloon over Paris) a model of a balloon believed to have been used by the Indians. Filled with smoke and buoyed by hot air from glowing coals in a clay pot, the replica rose from Gusmao's hand and floated toward the palace...