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Brisk and impatient as always, Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro arrived at Lisbon airport last week anxious to fly off to Oporto. There, with national elections scheduled for Sunday, he planned to deliver a final hortatory salvo to promote his presidential candidate-but no relation-General António Soares Carneiro. With the Prime Minister, in the twin-engine Cessna C-421, were his longtime companion, Danish-born Snu Abecassis; Defense Minister Adeline Amaro da Costa and his wife; Cabinet Chief António Patricio Gouveia and two pilots. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane lost altitude. It sheered...
...crash thrust Portugal to the brink of political crisis. Sá Carneiro, who left a wife and five children, took office last January as leader of a center-right majority coalition (134 of 250 seats) composed of his own Social Democrats along with rightist Christian Democrats and monarchists. Determined to strengthen his power to amend Portugal's Marxist constitution by electing a more like-minded President, Sá Carneiro opposed respected centrist President António Ramalho Eanes in this week's elections. His candidate, General Soares Carneiro, was an obscure rightist whose main credential for office seemed...
Polls showed Soares Carneiro trailing Eanes 2 to 1 before the crash. After it, all parties agreed that Sunday's elections should proceed as scheduled, probably because none could really assess what effect the accident might have on the outcome...
With six candidates in the field, there was a clear possibility of a runoff, and no Portuguese was ready to count on political stability. A majority for Eanes might express a public desire in that direction, but a sympathy vote for Soares Carneiro might just as easily demonstrate that the country wanted to preserve the cohesion that the dead leader had established. As for the post of Prime Minister, there seemed to be no one ready to fill Sá Carneiro's shoes. His Deputy Prime Minister and acting successor, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, is a frosty Christian Democrat...
...diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.), energetic Sá Carneiro is accused by leftist detractors of acting like a "little king." He, in turn, scorns the willingness to compromise that was Scares' trademark. Says Sá Carneiro: "This was the evil of the Socialist Party. They conciliated with us and the Communists. It does not work." As a member between 1969 and 1973 of the rubber-stamp parliament of the post-Salazar dictatorship led by Marcello Caetano, Sá Carneiro pressed for political liberalization, including curbs on the brutal secret police. After the revolution, he was made a Minister Without...