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When General Antonio de Spinola abruptly resigned as provisional President earlier this month, he warned that Portugal was being taken over by leftists and faced "anarchy, crisis and chaos." His successors have gone out of their way to declare that though Portugal is steering a leftist course, it will not go Communist and will continue to honor its commitments to the Western alliance. To allay fears, Portugal's new President, Francisco da Costa Gomes, flew to the U.S. last week to meet President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He also addressed the U.N. General Assembly...
Popular Vigilance. Power in Portugal now seems to be divided between General Costa Gomes, 60, the country's military Chief of Staff, and Premier Vasco Gongalves, 53, also a career officer who is regarded as the principal architect of the April revolution. Gongalves and the more conservative Spinola fought on almost all important issues, with Costa Gomes, then the No. 2 man in the ruling junta, acting as referee. Now Goncalves and Costa Gomes profess agreement on almost everything. "Where General Spinola saw anarchy, General Costa Gomes sees a healthy popular vigilance," says Gongalves. "These differences [between us] prevented...
Costa Gomes and Goncalves are in fact old friends. They served together in Angola, and both men participated from the very beginning in the April 25 movement that brought down the Caetano regime. Spinola was brought in after the coup to add his enormous prestige to the movement as titular head of state, but Costa Gomes was the preferred choice of the younger officers...
...Portugal (see following story), President Antonio de Spinola resigned with a dramatic warning against the left. Right-wingers in Spinola's postfascist government were quickly purged by the pro-left officers of the ruling junta...
Portugal's Spinola is not the only politician frightened by a Communist momentum that was strong enough to take 9 million of 30 million votes in Italy's last general election and may well claim the allegiance of half a million Greeks (out of an electorate of only 6 million). Elsewhere in Western Europe, there is trepidation about the possibility of a domino effect. France, for instance, has a Communist Party just as bourgeois in image as Italy's and almost as large and entrenched. Under certain circumstances - a deepening of the economic crisis, for example...