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...make a last-ditch political stand. This apparently is behind last week's decision by Lon Non, the President's ambitious and ruthless younger brother, to resign from a top army command and seek the post of secretary-general of the Social-Republican Party, the rightist backbone of Lon Nol's political support. Lon Non won a reputation for brutality when, as head of the national police, he violently suppressed student demonstrations...
Chaotic Takeover. Some accounts from Portugal suggested that Spínola's role was not so passive. Apparently convinced that he could save his country from the chaos and Communist takeover he feared, Spínola reportedly plotted over open telephone lines with ultra-rightists to overthrow the government. Moderate officers, who might conceivably have joined the rebellion, were frightened off by the involvement of members of the old regime and feared that a rightist uprising would end up in a Chilean-style massacre of leftists and plunge the country into civil...
Reactionary Adventures. As soon as the uprising erupted, the government rushed reinforcements into position around the presidential palace at Belem and the headquarters of the rightist Republican National Guard. Less than three hours after the aerial attack, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gongalves announced that the coup had been crushed. That night President Francisco da Costa Gomes denounced it as "a reactionary adventure" designed to disrupt the forthcoming elections and named his old friend, former President António de Spínola, 64, as its leader...
...fact an attempted coup but one prematurely triggered, either by moderate-to-rightist officers who were growing restive over growing radical power in Portugal, or by radicals who wanted to see it crushed before it could become more dangerous...
...most extreme leftist members of Portugal's Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.), who are impatient with the pace of reform since the revolution of April 1974 and fretful that centrist or rightist elements might hold sway. Accordingly, they wanted an excuse to root out their foes on the eve of the scheduled April 12 elections for a constituent assembly...