Word: carmona
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This tranquil atmosphere of confidence extends far beyond the capital Only a few troop carriers are seen today on the streets of Carmona, the center of the thriving North Angolan coffee industry and a prime locus of guerrilla activity since 1961 when the rebellion broke out only a few miles away...
...April, after the death of 81-year-old President Antonio Carmona (he had held the office since 1926), Portugal's National Assembly quietly amended the constitution to give the council of state (composed of top government leaders) a veto over the "fitness for office" of any election candidate. This week Portugal held her first election under the new law to choose a successor to President Carmona. For the party in power, the law worked just fine...
Died. Marshal Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, 81, Portugal's President since 1926; of uremia; in Lisbon. After 40 years in the army, he decided the Portuguese were incapable of governing themselves, had some evidence: 18 revolutions between 1910, when the last King gave up everything for an actress, and 192-6, when Carmona himself took over after a successful coup. He kept getting re-elected because Premier Salazar, Portugal's dictator, permitted no opposition...
...Carmona's opponent is an 81-year-old democratic liberal, Norton de Mattos, a retired general and diplomat who reads treatises on topography and mathematics for relaxation. He heads a forlorn rabble of socialists, democrats, Communists, and some monarchists...
...government's campaign for Candidate Carmona predicts civil war if Mattos should win and circulates outlandish whispering-campaign stories, one of them to the effect that Mattos once became enraged when he was thrown from a horse, and ordered the animal shot. In a village near Lisbon, a truck dropped handbills which boasted that the government had brought electricity, a school, a cemetery to the district. In his dirt-floored stone house, an old man read the handbill-by the light of a kerosene lamp. Said he: "We've never lacked space to bury our dead...