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Even before the swearing-in, the council had decreed the nationalization of Portugal's banks and insurance companies, which control more than half of the country's industries. Last week Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, who together with President Francisco da Costa Gomes remains at the head of the provisional coalition government, asked for the resignations of his 15-member Cabinet, banned three political parties that were accused of inciting violence and postponed elections for a constituent assembly until April...
...uprising erupted, the government rushed reinforcements into position around the presidential palace at Belem and the headquarters of the rightist Republican National Guard. Less than three hours after the aerial attack, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gongalves announced that the coup had been crushed. That night President Francisco da Costa Gomes denounced it as "a reactionary adventure" designed to disrupt the forthcoming elections and named his old friend, former President António de Spínola, 64, as its leader...
President Francisco da Costa Gomes in a radio-television speech, appealed for calm and said the government was in complete control He blamed the reactionary adventure" squarels in his presidential predecessor and former comrade-in-arms. Gen. Antonio de Spinola...
...Here is the early Christian theologian-and heretic-Origen, who castrated himself, and the American Benjamin Franklin, who did not. Here is Pythagoras, who denounced beans, and Horace Greeley, who renounced coffee. Here are the diverse saints and satans of human history: Gandhi and Hitler, Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Bormann, Albert Schweitzer and Richard Wagner. In The Vegetable Passion, such celebrities are always less notable for their deeds than for their dinners. "Byron," observes Barkas, "noted poet and lover, practiced a meatless diet sporadically throughout his life, not because of deep ethical or political ideas, but out of vanity...
...rest of his script, either. In the second act, the silliness of having songs at all often lends them a certain amount of sense, as in the case of a ballad sung in suitably Gilbert-and-Sullivanish style by Greg Minahan, as a response to Otto da Fe's discovery of half the cast in the act of escape from his deadliest dungeon. But in the first act, especially, not even Voight Kempson's professional choreography makes the songs more than pleasant breaks in the action...