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...lead, representing the struggle as one between the Stalinist Communists and "moderate" democratic welfare-state Socialists. Time magazine, probably the most incendiary of all American mass media, recently headlined a cover story "Red Threat in Portugal," with a background of a monstrous hammer-and-sickle and a picture titled "Lisbon's Troika". At issue in Portugal is neither "troikas" nor Soviet Domination, but a coming choice--perhaps by the end of this year--between revolution and reaction...
Increasingly, there is no Socialist Party position, even as Henry Giniger of The New York Times blathers about a Socialist "victory" in the oustring of Premier Goncalves. As an expression in Lisbon goes, the PSP is a radish: red on the outside and white on the inside, flooded by right-wing supporters, mainly in the conservative north, who have chosen the Socialists as the best break on revolution...
...carried out not by Communists or Socialists, but by workers supporting the "extreme left" and a policy of worker's control. Nor did the PCP prevent Republica and Renascenza from being returned to their "legal" owners--this decision was made by General Carvalho, an independent leftist then heading the Lisbon military garrison...
Annoyed by this insubordination, Costa Gomes summoned Morais da Silva to Lisbon's Belem Palace to deliver a reprimand. But then the army chief of staff, General Carlos Fabiao, also spoke out against Gonçalves. The bearded Fabiao called an all-day meeting of army officers at Tancos, 80 miles north of Lisbon, to discuss the situation. "Speaking in the name of the army," Fabiao told newsmen before the convention, "I doubt that the figure of Vasco Gonçalves contributes anything to the unity of the army−to the contrary...
Periodically during the past two months, rumors of a right-wing coup have circulated in Lisbon. Last week those fears came to the surface again when a familiar but unexpected figure suddenly showed up in Europe. Flying into Paris from exile in Brazil−disguised, for diplomatic reasons, as "Antonio Ribero, writer"−was General Antonio de Spinola, who had led the revolution until radical officers forced his resignation last September. As recently as a month ago, the reappearance on the scene of the discredited conservative general would have provoked chuckles in Lisbon. If the situation remains uncertain, the monocled...