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...leftist-led hardhats added a new twist. Massing on the steps of the legislative palace, they blocked the doors of the building in which 150 members of the constituent assembly were laboring over a new constitution. They also backed huge trucks against the entrances to Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo's official residence next door and warned that Premier and assembly would remain prisoners until they lifted a wage freeze and authorized 30% annual pay increases for the construction men, totaling $240 million. After 37 hours as a prisoner in his residence, Pinheiro de Azevedo reluctantly agreed...
...humiliating demonstration of leftist power threatened to bring down the sixth revolutionary government in 18 months. With the motto "Discipline! Discipline!", Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo, a moderate, has been trying since he assumed office two months ago to restore government authority and military subordination to it, which had gradually collapsed during the previous five governments. So far he has had little success -and last week's surrender to the hardhats was a case in point...
...their government and the fear of left-wing political parties. Although unorganized, the refugees are believed to be potential supporters of a right-wing coup. Portuguese newspapers last week warned that rightist forces were preparing a coup on Angola independence day to oust moderate Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo. Such tales, no matter how fanciful, have reinforced Portuguese mistrust and dislike of the newcomers...
...Brigades' members make no secret of their contempt for Communists -or anyone else who advocates other solutions-though they have been pragmatic enough to join the other radical groups in a united front against the government. Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo's government is let off rather lightly as being hopelessly ineffectual. "It has all of the intentions to be repressive, but it is not able to be," Carmo says genially...
Shortly after Premier José Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo took office last month, Portuguese Socialists dubbed him "the admiral without fear. "A warm, outgoing man with ruddy skin, thick hands and peasant features, Pinheiro de Azevedo, 58, does not much like the nickname but concedes: "In some ways it is correct because when I have a decision in my head, I put it into action immediately. " Last week, at his office in Lisbon 's São Bento palace, Pinheiro de Azevedo talked candidly about some of the decisions he faces with TIME Correspondent George Taber...