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...moved since last November. Some 150 high-ranking military officers and government officials have been imprisoned for alleged involvement in the fall revolt, and more arrests were expected to follow last week's report. To make room for the leftists, the government of moderate Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo has quietly released nearly all of the political prisoners who were rounded up after the abortive rightist coup of March 1975. Even some 200 former agents of Caetano's hated secret police, PIDE, have been released, as has former Interior Minister César Moreira Baptista, under whom...
...revolt led by detachments of radical paratroopers, it now appears, was only the first step of a giant plot to oust the shaky moderate regime headed by Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo. The radical coup failed because the Communist Party hesitated to call masses of workers into the streets as expected and because leading military sympathizers, like Admiral Antonio Rosa ("Red Rosa") Coutinho, responded to a last-minute patriotic call to duty from Costa Gomes and urged their followers not to revolt. Beyond that, the paratroopers inexplicably rebelled a day ahead of schedule, and ludicrous oversights allowed the moderates...
Under strong pressure from moderate politicians - Socialist Leader Mario Scares, Major Ernesto Melo Antunes. the dominant moderate voice on the ruling Council of the Revolution, and Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo - the President for once stood firm. He went on TV to declare a state of emergency, and he urged the rebellious paratroopers to end their "adventurous counterrevolutionary action." More important, he sent Neves' tough, red-bereted commandos to regain the air-force installations. All five of them were recaptured without bloodshed. The only deaths occurred when the commandos moved into the headquarters of the leftist military-police...
...coup was collapsing, the Communists were piously warning against "desperate political acts by the left." Although the best-organized of Portugal's parties, the Communists will now have to deal with a strengthened center and with the greater stature of such men as Scares, Melo Antunes and Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo, not to mention the new presence of Commando Colonel Neves...
...saying that he just likes to drink beer and chase girls," said one official last week. "But he will have to be considered on many key decisions from now on." In the near future those decisions will most likely be moderate, and at week's end Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo promised that henceforth "the government governs, the workers work, the armed forces protect, the institutions operate - and the revolution advances...