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...only four known cohorts of Gonçalves. Last week's actions also apparently restored the Council to its role as supreme arbiter of the revolution; its power had been eclipsed since the creation in late July of a ruling triumvirate composed of Gonçalves, President Francisco da Costa Gomes and General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, chief of the internal security forces. "There is no triumvirate," said Saraiva de Carvalho at week...
...general staff−the country's top military post. This move set off an increasingly hostile reaction within the M.F. A. The first ranking officer to speak up against Gonçalves' appointment as chief of the general staff was the air force commander, General Jose Morais da Silva, who spoke out against the general's Red connections. "A revolution made by 80% of the Portuguese people," he said, "cannot be transformed into a dictatorship by 20% of the Portuguese over the other...
Annoyed by this insubordination, Costa Gomes summoned Morais da Silva to Lisbon's Belem Palace to deliver a reprimand. But then the army chief of staff, General Carlos Fabiao, also spoke out against Gonçalves. The bearded Fabiao called an all-day meeting of army officers at Tancos, 80 miles north of Lisbon, to discuss the situation. "Speaking in the name of the army," Fabiao told newsmen before the convention, "I doubt that the figure of Vasco Gonçalves contributes anything to the unity of the army−to the contrary...
...engage in selfcriticism, not to provoke disunity. Since this is not understood, I'm going away." By a 4-to-l margin, the army assembly voted to press for Gonçalves' ouster. So did a similar convocation of air force officers; they backed General Morais da Silva's argument that Gonçalves' appointment "could lead to a dictatorship of the minority." On the other hand, Gonçalves was supported by another convention of officers representing the navy, which has traditionally been the most radical of the three services...
...week, Gonçalves let go-but not entirely. A communiqué issued from the presidential palace announced that he would be replaced as Premier by Navy Chief of Staff Admiral José Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo, 58, a career officer who has occasionally filled in for President Francisco da Costa Gomes. Gonçalves himself was given the post of Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, which Costa Gomes had held simultaneously with the presidency...