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...army officers throughout Portugal, soured by the nation's debilitating 13-year war against guerrillas in three African colonies, the messages could not have been clearer. After We Say Goodbye was an alert that this was the night the army would move against the totalitarian regime of Premier Marcello Caetano. "Dark land" meant that this was the moment to launch the coup. Thus began one of the few coups in which military officers threw out a totalitarian regime and declared their intention to establish a democratic government-instead of vice versa. In time, the shock waves sent...
...falling in Lisbon last Wednesday night when the signal came for the drama to begin. It was a folk song, called "Grandola," broadcast over one of the local radio stations at half past midnight. By 6 a.m., Lisbon was completely surrounded by rebel troops; 12 hours later, Portuguese dictator Marcello Caetano surrendered, and the oldest fascist government in Europe was toppled...
...only answer. The book caused a sensation when first copies appeared in Lisbon. Spinola's iconoclastic views were well known before it was published and were widely shared by many of his fellow officers in the armed forces. He also reportedly had the ear of moderate Premier Marcello Caetano, who had succeeded to power after illness forced Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's resignation...
...revolutionary iceberg hit Portugal last week--and though Marcello Caetano's dictatorship could still claim control at week's end, it could do so only by ignoring the nine-tenths that remained submerged...
Troops loyal to the dictatorship of Marcello Caetano kept an armed grip on Portugal, with soldiers posted at military installations and communications centers...