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Tentative Step. Costa Gomes, known in Lisbon as "the cork" because he always seems to bob up on top of every political crisis, waffled as usual. Addressing the crowd outside the palace as "my dear friends and comrades," he warned that if the Portuguese people did not reconcile their differences, they risked "a reaction from the right that could lead them to a regime similar to that in Chile." Nonetheless, he assured them, "while I am in this place, I will do everything possible to see that the reforms that are made in this country under any government will always...
Moderates on the Revolutionary Council were helpless against moves by organized pressure groups in the army and among the workers. Attempts to replace maverick leftist General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho−who openly sympathizes with riotous workers' demonstrations−as military commander of Lisbon failed when leftist commanders of the Lisbon units met and refused to accept Otelo's successor. The defeat was an ominous one for Pinheiro de Azevedo's Sixth Provisional government...
...united under a body of law." In the wake of the construction workers' lock-in of the Premier, the 247-member Constituent Assembly debated whether to move to the more tranquil environs of Oporto in the north. In the end, they decided to stay in Lisbon to show they were not afraid, but they did pass a motion allowing them to meet anywhere in the country if conditions warrant. Disgruntled businessmen bitterly joked that Portugal has become a "country under self-management," and one wit painted a slogan on a Lisbon wall reading: "Anarchy, yes, but not so much...
...Support. Portugal's construction industry has been moribund since the April 1974 revolution. Partly this is because many builders were speculators who kept afloat on the basis of loans from now nationalized banks that have cut off their credit lines. There has also been so much chaos in Lisbon that the government has been unable to accept several million dollars worth of loans from the U.S. for housing projects that have yet to materialize...
Pinheiro de Azevedo has managed to rally popular support for his brand of compromise politics. Aware of this, the left last week moved stridently to block him. A rally by Socialists and Popular Democrats in Lisbon's Terreiro de Paço Square in support of the Premier's programs was interrupted by radical leftist hecklers and then panicked by charging military police, who fired over the crowd and flailed spectators with rifle butts. After tear gas was mysteriously touched off, Pinheiro de Azevedo concluded his remarks with weepy eyes and wet cheeks...