Word: caetano
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Costa Gomes and Goncalves are in fact old friends. They served together in Angola, and both men participated from the very beginning in the April 25 movement that brought down the Caetano regime. Spinola was brought in after the coup to add his enormous prestige to the movement as titular head of state, but Costa Gomes was the preferred choice of the younger officers...
...nola's resignation was the climax of a long-simmering struggle between the young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the rebel group that toppled the Caetano regime, and the conservative general they had chosen as the figurehead leader of their revolution. Tension grew after Spínola made a bid last July for immediate elections, which he would almost certainly have won, thereby acquiring vastly enlarged powers. The officers rebuffed him, fearing that he was attempting to take over the revolution for himself. Lately, Spínola had begun making appeals to the "silent majority" to "awaken...
...stars in the African theater where, like Spínola, he came to oppose Portugal's colonial wars. When Spínola brought out his controversial book criticizing Portuguese colonial policy last February, Costa Gomes, who was then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Caetano regime, supported his deputy; both were ousted from their posts. His following in the military is said to be as large and as loyal as that of Spínola's; he is also considered a better politician than his predecessor. The real winner in last week's shake...
Lisbon's decision to grant independence to its African colonies had been a much-discussed possibility ever since the April coup in which dissident army officers overthrew the right-wing dictatorship of Marcello Caetano. One of the officers' main goals was to stop the wars in the colonies, which consumed 40% of the Portuguese budget and struck many of the young soldiers as the arrogant actions of a dying empire. But no one thought independence would be achieved quite so soon-or quite so easily. Portuguese right-wingers, and even some Liberals, were religiously convinced of Portugal...
...problem of the colonies and that continuation of the war would "irremediably compromise the survival" of Portugal. The book became an instant bestseller, and Spinola was fired as deputy chief of the armed forces. A few weeks later the young officers of the Portuguese Armed Forces Movement toppled the Caetano regime and selected Spinola as the new President...