The World - News from May 18, 1989

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the hero of Portugal’s 1974 revolution who was later imprisoned for 18 years on terrorism charges, was released after a Supreme Court ruling that he be given a new hearing because of irregularities at his trial. The case will be re-examined by a an appeals court, his lawyer said. Carvalho, a presidential candidate in 1976, was found guilty in May, 1987, of leading the shadowy FP-25 leftist terrorist group, which carried out a series of attacks and bombings in the early 1980s, threatening the stability of the still fragile democracy. Carvalho led the military uprising that restored democracy to Portugal after nearly 50 years of rightist dictatorship. He later championed a range of leftist causes.