It was another week of what passes for normality these days in Portugala week of riots, protests, rumors of coups and countercoups, and opaque behind-the-scenes deliberations by the country's confused and divided military rulers. The major problem facing the Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.) was to set up a new government under leftist Premier General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves. The previous Cabinetthe fourth since the April 25, 1974 revolutioncollapsed this month when Socialists and other moderates resigned. Reason: they were protesting an M.F.A. plan to set up local revolutionary councils that would...
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