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...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...
...Saraiva de Carvalho is the self-designated "Fidel Castro of Europe" who was responsible for festooning Lisbon with red carnations during the 1974 April revolution that overthrew former Premier Marcello Caetano. His arrest indicated how far to the right Portugal has 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...
...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...
...Saraiva de Carvalho was responsible for enforcing the Premier's order to seize the broadcasting stations. When he met with the radio and television network chiefs at the Ministry of Information early in the week, he strongly urged compliance and scourged them for creating the kind of tense political climate that could lead to a right-wing coup. Later, when confronted by a leftist mob outside the ministry, he silenced their jeers by saying that he was only carrying out orders; when the crowd suggested that he join them in a protest march on the Premier's palace...