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Mounting authoritarianism accompanied the swing leftward. Military men soon occupied half the Cabinet's seats, and COPCON (Continental Operations Command) was established as an elite police force, empowered to do whatever was needed to maintain public order...
...balls." Saraiva de Carvalho is popularly known by his first name -or, as adoring crowds chant it, "O-tell-u." His power base is COPCON, the 70,000-member military force that after the revolution assumed responsibility for public peace from the discredited Caetano police. His command of COPCON has made Saraiva de Carvalho the fastest rising star in Portugal. Still, he has his detractors. Spínola is reported to have once said that Saraiva de Carvalho "should never have got above sergeant." Many Portuguese regard him as a not-too-bright, womanizing playboy-hence his unflattering sobriquet...
...protecting the headquarters from townspeople who were pelting the building with cobblestones. Angered by onesided reporting in the Communist-controlled press, demonstrators in Rio Maior destroyed a truckload of newspapers and strung a banner across a building in the town's main square proclaiming PEOPLE OF RIO MAIOR COMMAND THE END OF FALSE INFORMATION...
...sought a small farm to work on near the new capital because his doctors believed he was endangering his life by lack of exercise. He had no available cash, but offered in exchange 3,000 of his western acres. The exchange was not considered adequate. At Washington's command, his need was never made known to anyone in authority. Nor was it ever satisfied. Nixon, according to the General Accounting Office, spruced up his homes at Key Biscayne and San Clemente with $1.3 million in tax money...
Were the soldiers ever told exactly what they had been exposed to? No, the Army admitted. But anyone who thinks he was involved in the experiments can find out now by phoning the U.S. Army's Medical Research and Development Command. The number, says the Army helpfully...