Word: caetano
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Leaders of Cambridge's Portuguese community yesterday expressed happiness with last week's military coup against the Portuguese dictatorship of Marcelo Caetano, and said they believed that change had been needed and coming for a long time...
...only answer. The book caused a sensation when first copies appeared in Lisbon. Spinola's iconoclastic views were well known before it was published and were widely shared by many of his fellow officers in the armed forces. He also reportedly had the ear of moderate Premier Marcello Caetano, who had succeeded to power after illness forced Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's resignation...
...influence as a leader of the nation's wealthy, privileged "100 families." Thomaz has been unbending in his allegiance to Salazar's conviction that "the provinces" are an integral part of "Metropolitan Portugal." Backed by powerful conservatives in the government and in the National Assembly, Thomaz pressured Caetano into sacking Spinola and his sympathetic boss General Francisco Costa Gomes. The move caused tremors in the armed forces and set rumors afoot that a military coup might be in the offing. Ultimately, a brave but ineffectual band of 200 soldiers marched on Lisbon; the protesters were easily disarmed...
...Portuguese don't use the vote because of their Portuguese background," Caetano says. "It takes a long time to overcome this and you have to have leaders. Right now I don't think we have the leaders...
...Portuguese people are like a shell [when it comes to politics]--to communicate with them is very difficult," Caetano, now a teacher in the Cambridge School Department's bilingual education program, says. "In Portugal they have no part in politics. So when they get to this country they are afraid of the word 'political' because in Portugal they can't take part in the government...