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...usual, there were suggestions of CIA involvement. General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, 37, the hot-tempered head of COPCON, the military security command, indirectly implicated American Ambassador Frank Carlucci in the plot and warned him that he "had better leave." Washington denied any involvement, however, and calmer heads in Lisbon declared that Carlucci was still persona grata...
Shortly before noon, two small, slow-moving specks appeared out of blustery skies and wheeled through scudding clouds over Lisbon. The T-6 Harvard trainers, familiar relics of World War II and the oldest and least combat-worthy planes in Portugal's entire air force, made a diving run toward the city's commercial airport. They dropped three small bombs on a nearby barracks housing the 1st Light Artillery Regiment, then swooped in once more for a desultory strafing run on the compound, using 30-cal. machine guns...
...serious coup attempt? With two antique planes, eight helicopter gunships and half a hundred remarkably restrained paratroopers, it hardly seemed credible. Two theories circulated in Lisbon and elsewhere...
...Portugal two months ago, the far left has been accusing him of having close ties with the CIA. A 15-year Foreign Service veteran, Carlucci, 44, has spent the past five years in Washington, most recently as Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. "What we are witnessing in Lisbon," Carlucci told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, "is a well-oiled, well-directed smear campaign." As an example, he cited a newspaper story that he had served in Chile and had given Spinola the green light for last week's coup. "Well," said Carlucci, "I have never met Spinola...
...Washington, officials tried to be optimistic about the current negotiations with Lisbon regarding U.S. bases in the Azores. Said one high-ranking State Department man: "Portugal hasn't abandoned the West yet, nor has it turned into what you could call a military dictatorship. None of us can believe that a country that so recently freed itself from one sort of dictatorship would lightly or easily revert to another sort of dictatorship. Let's wait and see what happens in the April elections...