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...from the military, perhaps without much resistance, since the beginning of the revolution, and most of them are in the hands of leftists. When an officer of COPCON, Portugal's internal-security police, recently admitted that he had given 1,500 automatic rifles to left-wing civilians, General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, COPCON's openly radical chief, implicitly defended him by boasting: "If there were a revolution, I would arm the people myself." Saraiva de Carvalho, who has given only tentative support to the Pinheiro de Azevedo government, has also warned: "If I see a turn...
...alves. Last week's actions also apparently restored the Council to its role as supreme arbiter of the revolution; its power had been eclipsed since the creation in late July of a ruling triumvirate composed of Gonçalves, President Francisco da Costa Gomes and General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, chief of the internal security forces. "There is no triumvirate," said Saraiva de Carvalho at week...
...moderates also presented Costa Gomes with a new document said to have been drafted in cooperation with Security Chief Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, who was also present at the meeting. Its most important demand was for a return to a coalition government composed of the major parties, with each to be represented in proportion to its showing at the polls in the April election. This would mean that the Socialists and the Popular Democrats, who together won 64% of the vote, would dominate a new Cabinet. The Communists, on the basis of their electoral showing of 12.5%, would become...
...moment, at least, Portugal's fate rests with the three generals who constitute the ruling Directory: President Francisco da Costa Gomes, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves and Internal Security Forces Commander Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (see box page 26). Last week the Directory was installed by the Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.), the revolution's founding group, and assumed powers previously wielded by the M.F.A.'s 30-man Revolutionary Council. There were immediate signs that the new triumvirate's opponents could expect tough treatment. Arriving back in Lisbon after a visit to Cuba, Saraiva...
...OTELO SARAIVA DE CARVALHO, Security Chief, is the closest thing the Portuguese revolution has to a genuine popular hero. Theatrical and flamboyant, he is described by one observer as an "ebullient, mischievous man with a flair for outrageous statements," and by another as "the only one [in the troika] who's got balls." Saraiva de Carvalho is popularly known by his first name -or, as adoring crowds chant it, "O-tell-u." His power base is COPCON, the 70,000-member military force that after the revolution assumed responsibility for public peace from the discredited Caetano police. His command...