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...demonstrations that first flared up across Europe continued into last week, often turning violent. Mobs besieged embassies and consulates in about a dozen cities. Flames gutted Spain's mission in Lisbon; a bomb exploded in the garden of the embassy in Ankara. In Rome and Milan, angry mobs set fire to Spanish tourist buses, and assaulted shops with Molotov cocktails. Danes smashed the windows of Spain's embassy and trade mission in Copenhagen. Paris was engulfed by the worst outburst of violence since the 1968 stu dent demonstrations as peaceful marches by leftists disintegrated into full-fledged rioting...
...since its inception. No stranger to political intrigue, the Angola-born admiral has had a role in a number of military conspiracies against the Salazar regime and its successor. In the April 1974 revolution, he commanded the radical navy fusiliers, who seized control of the secret police headquarters in Lisbon. More recently, as an emissary to NATO, he has been talking like a moderate, arguing that Portugal must remain within the European defense force...
...news media-a slap at the Communist unions that use the state-owned radio, TV and newspapers to spout the party line. Despite their token representation in the Cabinet, the Communists eye the new regime with scarcely veiled hostility. Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal told cheering followers in Lisbon's Campo Pequeno bull ring that if the government should move too far to the right, "we will join battle...
...M.P.L.A. has also gained ground in southern Angola, traditionally a base for the moderate UNITA, perhaps the most popular but also the weakest militarily of the independence groups. The M.P.L.A.'S success in the south has prompted speculation that it may be considering a merger with UNITA. The Lisbon government would probably welcome a pact between the two. It would allow Portugal to hand over control of Angola on Nov. 11-the scheduled date for independence-to groups that theoretically represent two-thirds of the country's black population...
...agitate--from the North, from Spain, and perhaps from Washington (although there is little direct U.S. financial interest in Portugal, save ITT). And Carvalho speaks of defending the workers' revolution with "very hard repression, which we have avoided up to now." In the words of a poster in Lisbon, he and his working class constituency, if they hope to avoid counterrevolution, had better be like steel in the coming months...