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Lisbon's decision to grant independence to its African colonies had been a much-discussed possibility ever since the April coup in which dissident army officers overthrew the right-wing dictatorship of Marcello Caetano. One of the officers' main goals was to stop the wars in the colonies, which consumed 40% of the Portuguese budget and struck many of the young soldiers as the arrogant actions of a dying empire. But no one thought independence would be achieved quite so soon-or quite so easily. Portuguese right-wingers, and even some Liberals, were religiously convinced of Portugal...
...acclaim from most critics, but it was also blasted as out-and-out propaganda. Although Costa's latest effort clearly has its polemical dimensions, the film's picture of the effects of American involvement in Latin American affairs proved pretty true to the mark when the Chilean military overthrew the government of Salvador Allende just a few months after the movie's American premier. Costa's portrayal of the Tupamaros, Uruguay's urban guerilla group, is far from simple and far from idyllic. The movie, despite the charges of propaganda, is relatively hardnosed and intelligent compared to some...
...night and day, much to the dismay of more conventional politicians and bureaucrats addicted to Portugal's leisurely working hours and three-hour lunches, and they seemed equally tireless in keeping their identities hidden. Last week the young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the rebel group that overthrew the regime of Marcello Caetano last April and ended half a century of dictatorial rule in Portugal, finally decided to flex their muscles publicly. In short order, the men of A.F.M. forced the resignation of civilian Prime Minister Adeline da Palma Carlos, a moderate, and got their own man installed...
...Portugal's uncertain future was the corps of young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the group that overthrew the Caetano dictatorship on April 25. The A.F.M. appointed old soldier António de Spínola, 60, as Provisional President and established an unlikely coalition government of Communists, socialists, military men, left-center groups and independent technocrats. But the government simply could not govern. Divided, buffeted by an annual 30% inflation rate and demands for price controls and sweeping economic reforms, lacking in political experience and hobbled by an A.F.M. requirement of unanimity on all projects, it could...
Perón returned to Argentina in time to take part in the 1943 colonels' coup that overthrew the constitutional government of Ramón Castillo. Rewarded with the post of Secretary of Labor, he carefully cultivated a following among the working masses. Their support helped him survive another coup in 1945 and brought him the presidency in the election of 1946. He became an accomplished practitioner of crowd manipulation?staging mass demonstrations ?and propaganda. To gain control of the courts and universities, he fired judges and teachers suspected of favoring the political opposition. He harassed and imprisoned his opponents...