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...recent article ("Spinola Move Could End Proxy Issue," Crimson, July 30) on Harvard's perennial problems arising from its share holdings in Gulf Oil, Nicholas Lemann detracts from an otherwise informative story by citing misleading statements regarding self-determination in Portuguese colonies that he attributed to Professor Francis M. Rogers. It may well be that Professor Rogers's Euro-centric vision of the African experience, which has occasionally compelled him to describe Portuguese colonies as "provinces" in defiance of historically established practice as well as current United Nations parlance, has this time led him to overlook African initiative...
Obscure Choice. The swift turn of events climaxed the most uncertain week in Lisbon since the April coup and came as something of a rebuff to General António de Spinola, 64, the soldier-hero who has served since then as provisional President and has allowed an unprecedented measure of political freedom. Spinola's choice for Prime Minister after Palma Carlos' ouster had been conservative Defense Minister Lieut. Colonel Mario Firmino Miguel. Instead, the A.F.M. chose one of its own: an obscure army colonel, Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 53, a left-leaning officer-engineer...
...addition, Spinola announced the formation of a new security force, COP-CON (for Commando Operacional do Continente), which will have the power to intervene to maintain order. Heading COPCON will be left-leaning Brigadier General Otelo Saraiva de Carvahlho, 37, the audacious young firebrand who organized the April revolution down to the tons of red carnations that suddenly blossomed all over the country as the rebels' symbol...
...Spinola said that the changes will mean "a new phase with more discipline" and "reinforced authority." Even though the young officers lean to the left -and the events last week were interpreted as a triumph of the left over the right in the military-they have a reputation for being strict disciplinarians...
With the government more or less immobilized, Spinola-who once declared that "politics has never attracted me"-has gradually been gathering more and more power into his own hands. In a style reminiscent of Charles de Gaulle, he has been touring the country, combining stops at military barracks with eloquent speeches in town squares. The general's whistle-stopping seems to have three main goals: to build up a personal following directly with the masses, to remind the army that its loyalty should be to him and not to the revolutionary captains who led the coup, and to warn...