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Even before the swearing-in, the council had decreed the nationalization of Portugal's banks and insurance companies, which control more than half of the country's industries. Last week Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, who together with President Francisco da Costa Gomes remains at the head of the provisional coalition government, asked for the resignations of his 15-member Cabinet, banned three political parties that were accused of inciting violence and postponed elections for a constituent assembly until April...
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...
...Premier Vasco Goncalves announced after the fighting that the situation was "under the absolute control of the Armed Forces Movement" which runs the country...
...Vasco McCoy, Jr. '49 said yesterday he donated the chair "to educate people and discover knowledge." McCoy is interested in weather because it affects his commodities speculations, he said...
...pondering the age-old question of how to have liberty without license. "Debauchery is a pig's breakfast," one anguished citizen wrote the Lisbon weekly Expresso. There have even been charges that the CIA is sponsoring the new pornography to sap the revolution of its energies. Recently, Premier Vasco Gonçalves on nationwide television admonished his people to fight "pseudo-leftists and anarchists instead of going to see the pornography that is around everywhere...