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Political activity has also picked up. Today walls and monuments everywhere are plastered with a monarchist-to-Maoist alphabet soup of obscure fringe parties, including, among others, M.R.P.P., C.D.S., P.P.M. and P.S.D.I. All seem to be catching up on a half-century of political intrigues, cabals and power plays. But in so doing they have exacerbated the country's debilitating political instability...
...yellow hammer-and-sickle party posters in every Portuguese town indicate that the Communists are the best-organized and -financed party in the country. Minister Without Portfolio Alvaro Cunhal, 60, the Communist leader, has emerged as the government's best politician after Spinola. Counseling moderation and condemning the Maoist left and labor unrest, Cunhal says that his short-term aim is the nationalization of transportation, mines, steel and "other fundamental sectors," plus agrarian reform. Cunhal's speeches round the country outdraw those of any other politician, and his Communist Party has embarked on a vast voter education program...
Since the anti-Lin Piao, anti-Confucius campaign was launched with great fanfare early this year, it has given rise to a number of puzzling events. First "revisionist" (i.e., vaguely anti-Maoist) operas were vigorously attacked, and members of the Politburo were criticized in wall posters. For several months it seemed that Premier Chou En-lai himself was under pressure from leftist factions in the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Many observers were predicting that the campaign heralded some major new development-perhaps on the scale of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. In recent weeks, however, the mysterious...
...tightly knit group of six or a dozen sympathizers with the Party for Workers' Power, which split last year from the Progressive Labor Party. The Party for Workers Power called itself Maoist at the time that it came to dominate SDS but later denounced Mao for selling out the working class. It sometimes joined other people's demonstrations. Then it concentrated on fighting racism, primarily by denouncing professors it disapproved of. Its members used to be the most indefatigable people on campus, but it seemed to me that last year they were starting to get tired...
...minutes later, a woman announcer appeared to say that a representative of the junta had ordered the program off the air. Four days earlier, in the small hours of the morning, plain-clothes police had knocked on the door of José Luis Saldanha Sanches, 29, a Maoist editor, and arrested him for publishing an article that urged Africa-bound soldiers to desert...