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Heavily Weighted. For the moment at least, Spínola remains in power, but the civilian phase of the Portuguese revolution seemed to be nearing an end. At week's end, Spínola named as Portugal's Premier Colonel Vasco Gonçalves, who will preside over a new military-civilian coalition government. But that was no guarantee of stability, since the young officers of the A.F.M. appear as divided as the civilians. Some officers want to pull out of Portugal's rebelling colonies completely; some want an authoritarian government while others, particularly from the navy...
Power Grab. "I can understand why people up to now lack confidence," Economics Minister Vasco Vieira de Almeida told TIME Correspondent George Taber. "It is up to the government to create it." Creativity, however, is not exactly helped by the patchwork makeup of the 15-member Cabinet, which includes Socialists and Communists as well as nonpolitical technocrats, centrists and a lieutenant colonel. Last week, typically, the Cabinet set aside three days to discuss a series of sweeping economic decisions; the meeting broke up in disarray after the first day, and further discussion was postponed for a week...
...Vasco Caetano came to Cambridge three years ago from southern Portugal for political reasons. Unlike Caetano most Portuguese in Cambridge come from the Azores, where economic, not political, issues are felt most acutely...
...drivers in last week's contest between the Vasco da Gama and America teams were typical of the heterogeneous lot attracted to autobol. One was a cab driver obviously venting pent-up aggressions, while two others were doctors who drove as if they were bent on drumming up some business. Though no one has yet been killed in autobol, bruises and broken ribs are regularly dished out by such cunguceiros (bad guys) as Vasco da Gama's Walter Lacet, a director of TV soap operas...
Though the fans loved every side-swiping, hard-fought (final score: America 4, Vasco da Gama 3) minute of it, autobol buffs like Driver-Stockbroker Ivan Silva suggest that the most spectacular crackups are yet to come. Silva foresees the day when huge throngs will watch as many as 22 drivers battling on a 300-yd. field in the latest high-powered machines. "They will be 300 horsepower cars," says Silva. "With big cars and a big field, we could get much higher speeds. It will be dangerous! The public will love...