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...force training planes bombed and strafed an artillery barracks in Lisbon Portugal, yesterday in an attempted coup against Portugal's left wing military government...
...young officers of the Armed Forces Movement who engineered last April's revolution promised elections within a year-and last week they made good on that promise. From his desk in Lisbon's pink stucco Belém Palace, President Francisco da Costa Gomes announced that the government had set April 12 as the date for Portugal's first free elections in 49 years. The balloting for a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution, Costa Gomes said on TV, marked "a fundamental milestone" on the path to democracy. Cautioning voters against extremists of both the left...
...some ways, the presidential injunction seemed superfluous: Portugal has been bristling with political activity since the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship, as if the people were making up for the decades when any kind of political activity was banned. The once sparkling white walls of Lisbon are disfigured by thousands of peeling political posters; radio and television devote seemingly endless hours to political debates, and most newspapers are little more than partisan broadsheets. There is a rally almost every day by at least one of the country's more than 50 parties...
Most of the parties that were formed in the wake of the April revolution are still in the process of organization. Radical fringe groups, notably the Maoist Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat Party (M.R.P.P.), have been in the forefront of Lisbon street demonstrations, but they have not necessarily made the most impact. Sample polls last month showed the middle-of-the-road Popular Democratic Party and the conservative Center Social Democratic Party leading with 30% of the vote each; the Socialists were close behind with 25%. The leading political groups...
...Center Social Democratic Party (C.D.S.) is the largest conservative group, with strong links to Portugal's old mercantile class, and a prime target of the radical left, which sees it as a front for "fascist reactionaries." The party derives its support largely from Lisbon businessmen and small farmers in the conservative north; it advocates free enterprise, backs NATO and closer ties with the Common Market...