Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday december 1, 1975 Lisbon communist party watches military allies go Down in defeat. The Washington Post Portugal s communist party has chosen to stand by and watch its Mili tary allies go Down to defeat rather than risk losing an All out confrontation with the moderates now in control of the Lisbon regime. In a move that duplicated the party s sudden withdraw Al of open support for Gen. Vasco Goncalves when the leftist Premier was ousted by the moderates in August the communists offered no support to the rebellious paratroopers and other units that lost last week s show Down with the government. The communists in fact or dered their followers to ignore Calls for help from the Defeated dissidents. The forces of the left would com Mit a serious error in overestimating their own forces and in trying any desperate a party communique issued in Lisbon said. Led by one of Western Europe s most doctrinaire marxists Alvaro Cuthal the party has repeatedly urged the forces of the left to bring about the downfall of the government of Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo. But its refusal to follow up on its words with action at moments of crisis appears to be dictated by a mixture of realistic prudence and con Cern about Moscow s reaction to the communists get Ting caught in a full fledged plot against a government that still belongs to the North Atlantic treaty organization. Domestically last week s debacle is certain to leave the communists even More vulnerable to charges from mor e Radical far leftist groups of betrayal of the these groups which in clude peking backed maoists and Home grown advocates of armed struggle As the Only Way to achieve social change have already denounced the communists for accepting one of the 15 port folios in Premier Azevedo s Cabinet and for allegedly playing on opportunistic Dou ble game of opposition and cooperation. The communists will undoubtedly Point to their orders of restraint to their followers to refute socialist Leader Mario scares charges that they instigated the uprising. Movement condemns its leaders to death Santiago Chile a Chile s underground revolutionary left movement on sunday condemned to death its two top of them a Nephew of the late marxist president Salvador ordered its militants and revolutionaries of the entire world to execute the sentences How Ever whenever and where they in a declaration sent from hiding to local and foreign news the Central committee of Mir As it is known by its Spanish initials said Andres Pascal Allende 32, the Leader of the organization and his principal aide Nelson Gutier rez 31, violated standing orders when they sought Asylum in two Santiago diplomatic missions with their female companions nov. 7. The declaration said both men were expelled from Mir and charged with treason against the party the work ing class and the people and also desertion and Coward their companions Mary Ann Beausire 24, a chilean and British National and Maria Elena Bachman were also ordered expelled from the organization which claims up to members and Fosters the belief that Only armed Force can convert Chile and other latin Ameri can countries to socialism. Pascal Allende and miss Beausire sought Asylum in the Costa rican embassy Here. Gutierrez and miss Bachman entered the Diplo Matic residence of the papal Nuncio the Vatican s envoy to Chile. The four Are Silil in the two diplomatic Sites. Last May Mir sentenced nine of its members to death for but the nine Are still alive in Ponce ens Tody. In addition to being expended from the party Pascal Allende and founders of Mir in were condemned to death for gravely damaging the development of the chilean and worldwide Revolta Tamry movement and also for use fact that their seeking of any effectively beeps the the communists won 12 per cent of the vote in constituent Assembly elections last april most of it concentrated in the Rural poor Southern Region where pea Sants have responded to the party s Radical land Reform program. Western diplomats recently predicted Comfort ably that the party would have trouble winning half that amount now because of growing conservative Back lash and the increasingly effective grassroots actions of f a r -1 e f t groups that have marxist Fot toilers ignore pleas for help from Defeated dissidents been organizing workers committees in factories and on farms. Last week s decision by the party which played major roles in bringing civil Ian demonstrators into the streets against rightist opponents in september 1974 and last March is a Clear Indica Tion that the communists also see themselves As hav ing been weakened in the past year. F european Diplo Matic sources in Lisbon also be Lieve that the Kremlin has left or. Cuthal know that it is not willing to risk detente for the Sake of the party s trying to grab Power openly in Portugal now. The paratroopers who sparked last week s show Down by seizing air Force installations around Lisbon had no particular lies to the communists and no apparent realistic Hope of receiving communist support unless their venture succeeded. Once seen by the leftists in Lisbon As a reactionary Force the paratroopers have Only recently been converted to anti government actions largely through the popular reaction to paratroop units being used to blow up a Lef station. Make yer right away. 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