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THE BATTALION Page 3B
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26, 1975
Portuguese leftists
hold 4 Lisbon bases
Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal — Leftist
troops took over four air force bases
around Lisbon yesterday without fir
ing a shot and seized a top air force
commander in what appeared to be a
concerted rebellion against civil and
military leaders.
President Francisco da Costa
Gomes, acting as chief of staff of the
armed forces, proclaimed a state of
alert and banned all street demonst
rations, including one called for to
morrow by left-wing troops and
sailors of the Lisbon area.
A leftist radio station said dissident
paratroopers had captured Gen.
Anibal Pinho Freire, a member of
the Revolutionary Council and
commander of the central air region
around Lisbon.
The rebels said in a communique
broadcast by the state radio that they
would hold the four bases until the
air force chief of staff, Gen. Jose
Morals e Silva, Pinho Freire and two
other moderate members of the
military’s ruling Revolutionary
Council — Majors Jaime Costa
Neves and Jose Canto e Castro —
were ousted.
The officers are supporters of the
beleaguered government of Premier
Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo.
Portuguese military police, also a
left-wing group, occupied the Lis
bon offices of the official Portuguese
news agency (ANOP). They did not
appear to be interfering in its opera
tions.
Other units had earlier moved in
on the national television and radio
stations, apparently to keep them
from being taken over by the moder
ate forces.
There were also unconfirmed re
ports that militant leftists of a light
artillery regiment stationed at
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Beirolas, in the Lisbon area, had
begun handing out arms to civilian
leftists.
A communique from the general
staff of the armed forces said dissi
dent paratroopers first took over an
air base at Tancos near their own
base, 35 miles up the Tagus River
from Lisbon.
An air force officer said leftist
troops then occupied the Monte Real
air base 60 miles north of the capital,
the Montijo base just across the
Tagus River from Lisbon and the
Monsanto base in Lisbon, which is
the air force’s regional headquarters
and communication center.
The government radio said there
had been no fighting at any of the
bases.
The general staff communique
said the seizures of the bases were
carried out by “victims of criminal
manipulation. ” It said units defend
ing the bases had been ordered not
to fire on the attackers in order to
avoid “a grave situation. ”
The situation is not yet perfectly
clear,” the statement added.
It said the rebels had acted “under
the pretext of a struggle against” the
commander of the air force, Gen.
Jose Morais e Silva, “who could not
be manipulated politically.”
The communique was sent ur
gently to the state radio chain with an
order that it should be broadcast
immediately “to inform the Por
tugese people of the situation. ”
The assaults were carried out just
before dawn by former members of a
recently disbanded paratroop regi
ment and leftist elements in the air
force. The air force has often been
described by communists and other
left-wing groups as “reactionary.”
Informed sources said the parat
roopers, who have been openly de
fiant of their officers, leaders of the
armed forces and the government,
moved into the bases in helicopters
and in trucks.
The seizure was in reply to
another attempt by the ruling milit
ary Revolutionary Council to oust
leftist Gen. Otelo Saraiva de Car
valho from command of the Lisbon
military region.
The council announced after a 10-
hour meeting that it had again nomi
nated Capt. Vasco Lourenco to re
place Carvalho. Ihe council named
Lourenco, a moderate, to last Fri
day, but President Francisco da
Costa Gomes withdrew the nomina
tion in a few hours. Several news
papers reported that commanders of
11 of the 13 military units in the region
said their men refused to serve
under Lourenco.
Meanwhile, anti-communist far
mers started removing barricades
from the roads leading north and
northeast from Lisbon after Costa
Gomes promised to consider their
demands for an end to Communist
dominance of farm policy.
A delegation of farmers returned
home and announced that Costa
Gomes had promised a point-by
point reply to the demands within six
days. A crowd of several hundred
persons at one of a dozen barricades
shouted “Victory! Victory!”
The roadblocks were set up Mon
day evening after a meeting of25,000
farmers at Rio Maior, 50 miles north
of Lisbon. The farmers drew up a list
of demands, including assurances
against expropriation of their lands.
The roadblocks, which were set up
without warning, created traffic jams
that stretched for miles. The de
monstrators also claimed to have
blocked the main rail line.
The Communist Party appealed to
its supporters to assemble at meeting
places and maintain “active vigi
lance. ” The statement, which was
broadcast, charged that “reactionary
elements” were mounting a cam
paign of “the gravest subversion.”
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