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...notable victory for law-and-order and a stunning defeat for the Communists. Eanes, the tough, austere army chief of staff who put down a leftist military uprising last November, won 61.5% of the vote, trouncing far-left candidate Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (16.5%), seriously ailing Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo (14.4%) and the Communist standard-bearer Octavio Pato (7.6%). Although Eanes' victory was less a personal triumph than a vote of confidence in the three non-Communist parties that backed him-the Socialists, Popular Democrats and conservative Center Social Democrats-the general is expected to wield...
...election. Although about 38% of the electorate is still undecided, the current Premier, Admiral Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo-who is not backed by any political party but is counting on his personality to put him across-is favored by 14% of the voters; ultra-leftist Army Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho should get 11 % of the vote. The Communist candidate, Octavio Pato, the party's No. 2 man and considered more acceptable than Stalinist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal, trails with a mere 3%. If Eanes does not get an absolute majority, he will then face a runoff election, probably...
...form of a 70-page government report that blamed the botched uprising on a wide array of leftists in the military, the labor movement, the Communist Party, the press and the now defunct COPCON security forces. The night after the report was released, flamboyant former COPCON Chief Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, who had served as part of Portugal's short-lived ruling troika (TIME cover, Aug. 11) was arrested at his home outside Lisbon. Saraiva de Carvalho, who had been demoted from general to major after his ouster from COPCON, protested his innocence. Said he: "My imprisonment must...
...abortive coup was virtually over by late Wednesday. Next day the government flew planes, singly and in squadrons, over Lisbon to show that it was in full control. Moderates on the Revolutionary Council finally ousted General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the Castro-admiring military-security chief, and sent home the security police. Army Chief of Staff General Carlos Fabião, Navy Chief Armando Filgueiras Scares and Admiral Antonio Rosa Coutinho ("Red Rosa") were also forced to resign for supporting the radicals...
Moderates on the Revolutionary Council were helpless against moves by organized pressure groups in the army and among the workers. Attempts to replace maverick leftist General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho−who openly sympathizes with riotous workers' demonstrations−as military commander of Lisbon failed when leftist commanders of the Lisbon units met and refused to accept Otelo's successor. The defeat was an ominous one for Pinheiro de Azevedo's Sixth Provisional government...