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...forces-meaning the right of the troops to debate every military decision-was asserted by regiments throughout the country. At the headquarters of the 1st Light Artillery Regiment outside Lisbon, hundreds of left-wing soldiers, sailors and airmen gathered to protest what they called Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo's attempt to restore "a right-wing dictatorship under the cover of social democracy." The mutinous military men joined some 3,000 civilians chanting such slogans as "Fascists out of the barracks...
...forces challenging Pinheiro de Azevedo's attempt to restore discipline represent a mixed bag of revolutionary groups. Their capacity for disruption is at this point much greater than their numbers would seem to warrant. The political far left (see box page 36) is made up of several fringe political parties, six of which have banded together as the United Revolutionary Front. The radical military leftists, who have organized themselves illegally into a group called Soldiers United Victorious (SUV), probably represent no more than 6% of the total armed forces. They are concentrated in the Lisbon area, and may control...
Some Italians. For the first time last week, there was talk of a third unsettling element in Portugal: an international brigade of revolutionaries who have come to support the country's radical left. Pinheiro de Azevedo estimated their numbers at 2,500 so far, and says that they are mostly South Americans, particularly Chileans, and some Italians...
...only bright prospect for the Pinheiro de Azevedo government is that it will soon start receiving financial and technical help from abroad. As long as the pro-Communist regime of Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves remained in power, the U.S. and Western European governments held back. Now, Western nations are prepared to discuss aid programs which, for a start, could total more than $200 million...
...gets up in the morning. The most popular rallying cry of last week's many demonstrations was one that was chanted by 40,000 Portuguese at a pro-government demonstration organized by Socialist Party Leader Mário Scares: "Discipline! Discipline! Discipline!" As yet. unfortunately, the Pinheiro de Azevedo regime has not shown that it can fulfill that mandate...