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Despite this aid, there is good reason to think that the Russians are a bit concerned that Cunhal may push Lisbon leftward too quickly. If Moscow is too blatantly associated with such developments, it could galvanize the West into taking some kind of concerted, direct action to help the moderates. This might then jeopardize Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev's cherished dream of détente. Washington has made it unmistakably clear that it will not tolerate any meddling by Moscow in Portugal's internal affairs. Shortly before flying to the Helsinki Conference, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...Theoretically, the military and naval surveillance functions carried out by NATO from Portuguese bases could be done elsewhere; the U.S. airbases in Spain are strategically more important than Lajes Field in the Azores. Nonetheless, the organization would find it awkward, at best, to let Portugal remain a member if Lisbon's government was dominated by the Communists or more extreme leftists. Such a development could strategically affect the western end of the Mediterranean and access to the Strait of Gibraltar; it could also influence the course of Spain's development in the post-Franco...
Western European leaders are seemingly less worried than Washington is about the dangers, but they are nonetheless unhappy with developments in Lisbon. In an attempt to bolster the Portuguese moderates, the Common Market has told Lisbon that it cannot expect economic aid until there are assurances that Portugal will become a pluralistic society. Declared West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher: "We have no interest in promoting a dictatorial development...
...Scenarios. Veteran observers of Lisbon's often baffling politics see two possible scenarios in the ensuing months; both focus on the left because rightist forces at present are completely scattered and discredited. One scenario is a relatively quick disintegration of the troika, with Gonçalves as the likely loser and the mercurial Saraiva de Carvalho emerging as a new strongman. Despite his popularity with the radical masses, the charismatic boss of the security forces would polarize discontent; he could only govern by imposing the kind of repressive measures the April 25 revolution supposedly abolished for good. Cunhal...
Before the April revolution, the three soldiers who are dominating the Lisbon government were virtually unknown outside Portugal. Today, they are international figures at the center of one of the century's most portentous, unpredictable political upheavals. These, for the moment at least, are the men responsible for Portugal's uncertain future...