But Brazil's Ernane Galv�as, who sent his deputy, had daunting problems at home.

Actual reason for the emergency: Strongman Ant�nio de Oliveira Salazar's obsessive fear that maverick Henrique Galv�o, who stole the Santa Maria and world headlines in an eleven-day protest against the regime last January, plans a coup in Portugal itself.

Even so, Galv�o's Anti-Totalitarian Front took the regime by surprise.

"I thought the speech would be conservative," declared Socialist Enrique Tierno Galv�n, "but I didn't think it would be reactionary."

Appearing on national television the day after, a spokesman for the military junta, General Galv�o de Melo, denounced the "climate of anarchy that exists at all levels."