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...theory, the move seemed fair enough. If everyone else could strike for what they want, why not the government? Actually, it was a move born of desperation, and it could well spell the end of the two-month-old government of moderate Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo. President Costa Gomes, who is also commander in chief of the armed forces, went into session with the ruling Revolutionary Council to deal with the crisis. Abhorring a vacuum, the Communists quickly mobilized several thousand faithful, who marched outside the presidential palace, chanting: "Reactionaries out of the government...
After a meeting with Costa Gomes, Pinheiro de Azevedo emerged visibly angered. Only the week before he−along with 150 members of the Constituent Assembly−had been imprisoned for 37 hours in Sao Bento Palace by a mob of 60,000 construction workers seeking a 30% pay rise. After the meeting with the President, he told reporters: "I am fed up with being held prisoner. It is time the President resolved this crisis...
...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...
Alarmed by the growing threat of mob rule, which radicals euphemistically called poder popular (people power), Pinheiro de Azevedo has warned: "People power becomes tyranny when it is not united under a body of law." In the wake of the construction workers' lock-in of the Premier, the 247-member Constituent Assembly debated whether to move to the more tranquil environs of Oporto in the north. In the end, they decided to stay in Lisbon to show they were not afraid, but they did pass a motion allowing them to meet anywhere in the country if conditions warrant. Disgruntled...
Pinheiro de Azevedo has managed to rally popular support for his brand of compromise politics. Aware of this, the left last week moved stridently to block him. A rally by Socialists and Popular Democrats in Lisbon's Terreiro de Paço Square in support of the Premier's programs was interrupted by radical leftist hecklers and then panicked by charging military police, who fired over the crowd and flailed spectators with rifle butts. After tear gas was mysteriously touched off, Pinheiro de Azevedo concluded his remarks with weepy eyes and wet cheeks...