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arrive to negotiate the surrender of the regime's leaders. Spínola himself arrives, places Gervásio in local command (despite Gervásio having spent almost the entire day avoiding any action) and orders Maia to convey the arrested
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arrests the base commander at gunpoint and orders the soldiers to assemble on parade in the middle of the night; he asks them to come with him to Lisbon to overthrow the government. Maia's erudite but cynical and cautious colleague Major Gervásio refuses to take part, as does
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