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...Portugal's uncertain future was the corps of young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the group that overthrew the Caetano dictatorship on April 25. The A.F.M. appointed old soldier António de Spínola, 60, as Provisional President and established an unlikely coalition government of Communists, socialists, military men, left-center groups and independent technocrats. But the government simply could not govern. Divided, buffeted by an annual 30% inflation rate and demands for price controls and sweeping economic reforms, lacking in political experience and hobbled by an A.F.M. requirement of unanimity on all projects, it could...
...Prime Minister Adelino da Palma Carlos, 69, a moderate law professor appointed by Spínola, conditions were intolerable. The Cabinet he headed was not of his choosing, and he had no authority over it. Among other things, he insisted that the Council of State, which is dominated by the military and acts as the country's watchdog committee, draw up a constitution and elevate him to something more than a mere "Cabinet coordinator." The council agreed to let him appoint Ministers but refused him added authority...
...nola had his own troubles and was busy trying to buttress his position. He could preside, make speeches-but not really rule. When Palma Carlos tried to pressure the Council of State into moving the presidential election up from next year to this autumn, presumably with the expectation that Spínola would be elected President, he was rebuffed. Spínola was accused of trying to gather power in his own hands...
...Sellout. So far, most of Angola's 500,000 whites and 250,000 people of mixed blood seem willing to stay on and take their chances. President António de Spínola's assurances that there will be an orderly transfer of power have helped, and so has the moderate tone of most black political pronouncements within Angola. "Money is basically cowardly," observes a Portuguese banker in Luanda, the Angolan capital. "At present it is staying here, but unless confidence continues, it will flee." In the central plateau city of Nova Lisboa, an insurance executive told...
Having fought in Angola against F.N.L.A. guerrillas in the early '60s, General Spínola is well known and respected there. "When he makes his long-awaited visit, probably this week," reports Correspondent Griggs, "he will be expected to provide a sort of wholesale reassurance to the entire population: to the black poor, that economic racism is finished and a better life awaits them; to the black politicians, that the power will be theirs as promised; and to the whites, that there will be no sellout to extremism when, after 500 years, the Portuguese go home at last...