Wikileaks: Carlucci, a Madeira e os confrontos com feridos

"SUMMARY: PARTY REACTIONS TO JULY 25 AFM ASSEMBLY DECISIONS HAVE BEEN AS EXPECTED. PCP AND MDP/CDE SUPPORTED DECISIONS; PS AND PPD CRITICIZED THEM. PS NOTED CONTRADICTION BETWEEN PRESIDENT'S SPEECH TO ASSEMBLY AND ASSEMBLY'S DECISIONS. PS CALLED UPON PRESIDENT TO BRING TOGETHER VARIOUS CURRENTS WITHIN AFM AND POLITICAL PARTIES TO FORM "GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL SALVATION." PRIME MINISTER VASCO GONCALVES IS EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE MEMBERSHIP OF NEW GOVERNMENT FOLLOWING RETURN OF GENERAL OTELO SARAIVA DE CARVALHO FROM CUBA. SIX MODERATE OFFICERS, WHO REFUSED TO ATTEND JULY 25 ASSEMBLY, HAVE BEEN MAKING THEMSELVES SCARCE. THEY ARE REPORTED AT FRIENDLY MILITARY UNITS -- WHETHER TO PROTECT THEMSELVES OR TO ORGANIZE OPPOSITION IS NOT YET CLEAR. PRO-CHURCH DEMONSTRATION WAS HELD JULY 27 IN BRAGANCA WITHOUT INCIDENT. PS HELD THREE RALLIES OUTSIDE LISBON OVER WEEKEND. PCP OFFICES IN AGUEDA, ESMORIZ WERE SACKED ON JULY 26. FIVE PERSONS WERE WOUNDED SAME DAY IN EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE ON MADEIRA. CLASHES ALSO OCCURRED BETWEEN PORTUGUESE AND MPLA IN ANGOLA.

1. PARTY REACTIONS: OFFICIAL POLITICAL PARTY REACTIONS TO JULY 25 DECISIONS OF AFM GENERAL ASSEMBLY HAVE FALLEN ALONG EXPECTED LINES. PCP AND MDP/CDE PRAISED THE DECISIONS. PCP CALLED FOR FORMATION OF A "BROAD SOCIAL FRONT" IN SUPPORT OF REVOLUTION. PS AND PPD, ON OTHER HAND, WERE SHARPLY CRITICAL. BOTH PARTIES ARGUED THAT CONCENTRATION OF POWER IN TRIUMVIRATE WAS VIOLATION OF PACT BETWEEN PARTIES AND AFM AS WELL AS BEING A USURPATION OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL. SOCIALIST STATEMENT STRESSED THE INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN WORDS OF PRESIDENT COSTA GOMES IN HIS SPEECH TO AFM ASSEMBLY AND THE ASSEMBLY'S SUBSEQUENT DECISIONS. PS STATEMENT CON- CLUDED BY CALLING UPON PRESIDENT, AS ONLY MAN WITH REQUISITE AUTHORITY AND PRESTIGE, TO BRING TOGETHER THE VARIOUS CURRENTS WITHIN THE AFM AND THE POLITICAL PARTIES TO CONSTRUCT A "GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL SALVATION."

2. NEW GOVERNMENT: PRIME MINISTER VASCO GONCALVES IS EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE FIFTH PROVISION GOVERNMENT IN THE NEXT DAY OR SO. THE FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT WILL PROBABLY NOT BE MADE UNTIL GENERAL OTELO SARAIVA DE CARVALHO'S RETURN FROM CUBA, NOW EXPECTED JULY 29. STRUCTURE UNDER TRIUMVIRATE WILL PROBABLY INCLUDE TWO VICE PRIME MINISTERS -- GENERAL CARVALHO, SERVING IN DUAL CAPACITY, AND PROF. TEIXEIRO RIBEIRO -- AND MINISTERS AND SECRETARIES OF STATE CONSISTING OF INCUMBENTS AND LEFTIST "NON-PARTY TECHNICIANS."

3. DEMONSTRATIONS AND VIOLENCE: THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TURNED OUT JULY 27 FOR DEMONSTRATION IN BRAGANCA IN SUPPORT OF BISHOP AND CHURCH HIERARCHY (LISBON 4182). CHURCH SOURCES STATE THAT, IN ADDITION TO PRO-CHURCH BANNERS, ANTI-AFM AND ANTI-COPCON SIGNS WERE ALSO IN EVIDENCE. NO INCIDENTS OCCURRED AND LOCAL MILITARY AUTHORITIES MADE NO ATTEMPT TO INTERFERE WITH DEMONSTRATORS.

4. SOCIALISTS HELD THREE RALLIES OVER WEEKEND -- IN FIGUEIRA DA FOZ AND VISEU, NORTH OF LISBON; AND SAO JOAO DA MADEIRA. LARGEST OF THREE, IN FIGUEIRA DA FOZ, WAS ATTENDED BY PS LEADER SOARES. SOARES CALLED FOR PAUSE IN TENSIONS TO ALLOW PRINCIPAL PROTAGONIST TO SIT DOWN TOGETHER TO ATTEMPT TO WORK OUT A REALISTIC PLAN TO SAVE THE REVOLUTION.

5. INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE WERE REPORTED IN AGUEDA, ESMORIZ, AND FUNCHAL. -- IN AGUEDA AND ESMORIZ LOCAL PCP OFFICES WERE SACKED ON JULY 26 AND PCP MATERIALS THROWN INTO THE STREET AND BURNED. -- IN FUNCHAL, ON THE ISLAND OF MADEIRA, FIVE PERSONS WERE REPORTEDLY WOUNDED IN AN EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE BETWEEN UNNAMED CIVILIANS AND MILITARY PERSONNEL OUTSIDE HOUSES OCCUPIED BY "PROGRESSIVE FORCES." RIVAL DEMONSTRATIONS SPONSORED RESPECTIVELY BY PPD AND UPM TOOK PLACE WITHOUT INCIDENT.

6. CLASH IN ANGOLA: PORTUGUESE MILITARY UNITS ON JULY 26 CONDUCTED A PUNATIVE RAID ON MPLA OUTPOST IN VILA ALICE. CASUALTY TOLL: 14 DEAD, 22 WOUNDED. PORTUGUESE ACTION CAME IN RETALIATION FOR INCIDENT PREVIOUS DAY IN WHICH MPLA TROOPS DISARMED PORTUGUESE PATROL, ORDERED IT FROM AREA, AND THEN OPENED FIRE ON DEPARTING SOLDIERS.

7. COMMENT: HOW NEW TRIUMVIRATE WILL WORK IS STILL FAR FROM CLEAR. ONE CLUE WILL BE THE FASHION IN WHICH THE NEW GOVERNMENT IS FORMED. WILL OTELO HAVE A HAND IN THE SELECTION OF MINISTERS? OR WOULD HE PREFER TO STAND ASIDE, EITHER BECAUSE THE TASK IS SO DIFFICULT OR BECAUSE HE DOES NOT WISH TO ASSOCIATE HIMSELF TOO CLOSELY WITH A GOVERNMENT THAT IS ALMOST CERTAIN TO FAIL? SIX MODERATE OFFICERS WHO REFUSED TO ATTEND JULY 25 ASSEMBLY HAVE BEEN MAKING THEMSELVES SCARCE. ONE SOURCE SAYS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN VISITING FRIENDLY MILITARY UNITS -- WHETHER TO ORGANIZE THE OPPOSITION OR TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM ARREST IS NOT YET CLEAR.

CARLUCCI

CONFIDENTIAL"

Wikileaks: problemas com as ligações aéreas com a Madeira (Abril de 1974)

"DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS FROM LISON, OPORTO, FARO AIRPORTS RESUMED MORNING APRIL 28. AT 14:00 APRIL 28, TWA LISBON REPORTED THAT ALL AMERICANS WITH CONFIRMED RESERVATIONS FOR APRIL 25,25,27 WHO CAME TO AIRPORT DEPARTED ON TWO TWA FLIGHTS. PAN AM EXPECTS TO BE ABLE ACCOMMODATE ALL AMERICANS WHO HAD CONFIRMED RESERVATIONS FOR APRIL 25,26,27 BY ADDING EXTRA FLIGHT 17:00, BRINGING PAN AM TOTAL TO THREE FLIGHTS TODAY. TAP ALSO HAS NEW YORK FLIGHT TODAY. ONLY APPARENT TROUBLE SPOT AT PRESENT IS MADEIRA ISLAND WHERE IRATE AMERICANS, UNABLE TO BE ACCOMODATED TODAY ON FIVE TAP FLIGHTS BY 727, HAVE THREATENED BY TELEPHONE TO STAGE UNSPECIFIED ATTENTION- GETTING ACTION IF U.S. AIR FORCE PLANE NOT SENT TO PICK THEM UP. EMBASSY HAS REQUESTED TAP ASSISTANCE IN EXPEDITIOUS HANDLING OF AMERICAN PASSENGERS IN MADEIRA"

Wikileaks: a cólera não afectou a Madeira e os Açores em 1974....

"IN A STATEMENT RELEASED TO THE PRESS, THE PORTUGUESE GENERAL DIRECTOR OF HEALTH CONFIRMED THAT THERE HAVE BEEN EIGHT DEATHS WITH 368 HOSPITALIZED AND LABORATORY-CONFIRMED CHOLERA CASES IN CONTINENTAL PORTUGAL SINCE THE FIRST CASE WAS DETECTED LAST APRIL 24 UNTIL JULY 6, 1974. THEREFORE THE LATEST FIGURE OF 368 REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF 96 CASES SINCE THE EMBASSY'S LAST REPORT IN REFERENCE TELEGRAM 2741 DATED JULY 1. OF THE 96 NEW CASES, 70 WERE RESIDENTS OF PORTO DISTRICT WHILE 18 WERE FROM LISBON DISTRICT.

IN THE ALGARVE, WHERE THE FIRST CHOLERA CASES WERE DETECTED, THERE HAS BEEN ONLY ONE CASE HOSPITALIZED SINCE JUNE 26. IN LISBON AND PORTO DISTRICTS, PRESENTLY THE MOST AFFLICTED AREAS, PRACTICALLY ALL CASES COME FROM THE POOREST AREAS WHERE PEOPLE LIVE UNDER WORST SANITARY CONDITIONS. PORTUGUESE AUTHORITIES, APPARENTLY CONCERNED THAT TOURISM HAD FALLEN OFF, EVEN BEFORE THE CHOLERA OUTBREAK, HAVE EMPHASIZED THAT TO DATE NO FOREIGN NOR PORTUGUESE TOURISTS HAVE DEVELOPED THE DISEASE. ALSO THAT NO FOREIGN COUNTRY HAS REPORTED ANY CASES OF CHOLERA IMPORTED FROM PORTUGAL. ALTHOUGH NO CASES OF CHOLERA HAVE YET BEEN DETECTED IN MADEIRA OR THE AZORES ISLANDS, IT IS REPORTED THAT 45 CASES HAVE OCCURRED IN THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS BUT ONLY ON THE ISLAND OF SAL. NO TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS OF ANY KIND HAVE BEEN IMPOSED BY THE PORTUGUESE AUTHORITIES.

SCOTT

UNCLASSIFIED"

Wikileaks: Carlucci, os Açores e as Lajes

"SUMMARY:MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC FIGUEIREDO SAID AZORES BASE NEGOTIATIONS WOULD NOT BEGIN BEFORE U.S. ELECTIONS.

1. GOP OFFICIALS ON AZORES BASE NEGOTIATIONS: UPON HIS RETURN FROM THE UNITED NATIONS OCT 9, FONMIN MEDEIROS FERREIRA TOLD THE PRESS THAT SECRETARY KISSINGER AND HE HAD DISCUSSED THEIR MUTUAL INTERESTS IN EARLY RENEGOTIATION OF THE AZORES BASE AGREEMENT. MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC TO THE AZORES, GEN GALVAO DE FIGUEIREDO, IN LISBON FOR MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENT EANES AND PRIME MINISTER SOARES, SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT OCT 11 ON HIS EARLIER REPORTED REMARKS PREDICTING EARLY SIGNATURE OF A NEW BASE AGREEMENT (REF A). FIGUEIREDO TOLD THE PRESS OCT 11 THAT NEGOTIATIONS WILL BE DELAYED; QTE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WILL BE PREPARED TO SIGN AN AGREEMENT BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.

2. PS-PSD DISPUTE OVER REGIONAL GOVERNMENT: THE SOCIALISTS AND SOCIAL DEMOCRATS HAVE ALSO TRADED CHARGES REGARDING THE AZORES REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN RECENT DAYS. -- PS ACCUSES: THE PS IN PONTA DELGADA ACCUSED PSD REGIONAL GOVERNMENT LEADERS OF PROVOKING A DISPUTE BETWEEN THE REGIONAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS TO ESTABLISH AND ALIBI FOR PSD FAILURE TO GOVERN EFFECTIVELY. -- REGIONALS REPLY: THE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT RESPONDED THAT IT SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH A PEACEFUL WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AND CHALLENGED THOSE WHO DISAGREED TO CHECK WITH MINISTER FIGUEIREDO. -- SA CARNEIRO RIPOSTES: PSD LEADER SA CARNEIRO, FOLLOWING AN OCT 11 MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER SOARES, TOLD THE PRESS THAT THE PS IS MOUNTING A SYSTEMATIC ATTACK ON THE REGIONAL GOVERMENT. HE CITED THE PS PONTA DELGADA COMMUNIQUE AND JAIME GAMA'S RECENT PRESS INTERVIEW (REF C) AS EVIDENCE. -- GALVAO DE FIGUEIREDO CALMS WATERS: MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC FIGUEIREDO LABELLED THE PS-PSD DISPUTE "PARTISAN QUARRELS WHICH DO NOT EFFECT THE NORMAL LIFE OF THE AZORES." HE SIAD SUCH BICKERING COULD BE EXPECTED TO INCREASE AS THE CAMPAIGN FOR DEC 12 LOCAL ELECTIONS INTENSIFIED. FOLLOWING HIS OCT 11 MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER SOARES, FIGUEIREDO MOVED TO REMOVE AN IRRITANT IN CENTRAL-REGIONAL GOVERNMENT RELATONS BY ANNOUNCING THAT CABINETS FOR THE AZORES MADEIRA WOULD NOT BE ESTABLISHED IN THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE. AZORES REGIONAL GOVERNMENT PRESIDENT MOTA AMARAL HAD ATTACKED THE LISBON-BASED CABINET AS AN EFFORT TO ESTABLISH AND ALTERNATE GOVERNMENT (REF B).

3. NEGOTIATIONS ON FRENCH FACILITY: ON OCT 11, FRENCH AND PORTUGUESE DELEGATONS MET IN PONTA DELGADA TO NEGOTIATE A RENEWAL OF THE AGREEMENT BY WHICH THE FRENCH ARMED FORCES USE A TELEMETRY STATION ON FLORES ISLAND. VITOR MACEDO, REGIONAL ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC WORKS, REPRESENTED THE AZOREAN GOVERNMENT.

CARLUCCI

 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE"