REPORTER OPEN. CHILDREN AND MAN GIVE SOLDIER FLOWERS. VARIOUS SHOTS OF LEFTISE DEMONSTRATION WITH BANNERS, SECURITY POLICE ARRESTED AND PTEEE PUT IN PADDY WAGON, LABOR UNION RALLY WITH CHANTING AND UNION LEADER ADDRESSING CROWD VOCIFEROUSLY, SHOTS OF CITIZENS STROLLING TOWARD INDEPENDENCE SQUARE AND CATHERING THERE




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Background: AFTER THE COUP THE RESIDENTS OF LISBON STILL MANIFEST AN ONEEEE OPEN AFFECTION FOR THE MILITARY, THE GROUP THAT GAVZ THEM THEIR FIRST TASTE OF FREEDOM IN ALMOST HALF OEEE A CENTURY. NEVERTHELESS, EVEN WITH THE NEW FREEDOM, THERE ARE TENSIONS IN PORTUGAL. LEFTIST WANT A MASS PURGE OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE FORMER GOVERNMENT, SOMETHING THE PRESENT REGIME IS UNWILLING TO CARRY OUT EVEN THOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN WIDESPREAD ARRESTS OF THE HATED ???LIEEEE POLITICAL POLICE. THE UNIONIST MOVEMENT TOO HAS COME OUT OF HIDING OVERNIGH EEEE OVERNIGHT WITH VIEEE VOCIFEROUS RALLIES, AND THEREEE THEIR DEMANDS TO ARE AIMED AT PUTTING PRESURE ON THE GOVERNMENT OF GENERAL SPINOLA. MAYY PEOEEEE MANY PEOPLE, HOWEVER, GATHER IN INDEPENDENCE SQUARE TO GET THE LATEST INFORMATION. THAT IS WHERE THE COUP FIRST TOOK PAEEEE PLACE.