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Futile Effort. A week earlier the fight between the Socialists and Communists, who are allied to the radical faction of the M.F.A., had seemed headed toward a showdown (TIME, June 2). Communist printers had forced the closing of the Socialist newspaper Republica, and Socialist Leader Mario Soares had vowed that he would attend no more meetings of the Cabinet, in which he is a Minister Without Portfolio, until the newspaper was allowed to resume publication. His vow raised the threat that the Socialists, who won 38% in the last elections but hold no real power under the present system, might...
...Republica remained closed last week, even though the government's press council agreed with the Socialists that the press law had been broken by the printers' action in taking over the paper. But after a trip to Paris, where he held strategy conferences with European socialists and after a meeting with the Revolutionary Council at week's end, Soares decided to end his brief boycott of governmental activities. Because of the dangerous situation in Angola, where 39 people had been killed in renewed fighting between the several Angolan liberation movements, Soares joined the government's decolonization...
Branding the Communist action "a maneuver designed to silence yet another free voice in Portugal," Rego locked himself in his office. His editorial staff voted to support him by an overwhelming 22-to-2 margin and declared that Republica was not the "exclusive property of its workers" but of the Portuguese people...
...Soares and his beleaguered Socialists, the closing of Republica was perhaps the most ominous setback in their struggle for survival. Only four weeks ago, in Portugal's first free elections in half a century, the Socialists outpolled everybody, with 38% of the vote, and even carried what had been considered Communist strongholds in Lisbon, Oporto and the agricultural south. The middle-of-the-road Popular Democrats won 26% of the vote. The Communists ran a poor third with only...
...between "electoralism or revolution," are choking off all options for Portugal but one: a crisis in which the Revolutionary Council would ban all political parties, thereby leaving the Communists in a position to strengthen their present footholds of power. After three days of almost continuous meetings on the Republica crisis, the Revolutionary Council pooh-poohed the Socialist reaction as "out of proportion to the incident," then warned, "The defense of liberty is not exclusively in the hands of any one political party but rather of the Armed Forces Movement and the Portuguese people." The words are hauntingly familiar, as well...