Word: carvalho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mild earthquake shake Lisbon one morning last week? "It was caused," according to a local joke, "by the general putting his big foot down on the political parties." The officer in question was General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the tough, outspoken boss of the military security force, and the earthquake occurred just as he was making his way to a special assembly of the ruling Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.). There was only one solution to the party bickering that was "causing division and making the people suffer," declared the general, expressing a view that is increasingly accepted as the Armed...
...Angolan Journalist Job de Carvalho...
...slums) between the F.N.L.A. and the M.P.L.A. Last week the trouble spread to Nova Lisboa, Angola's second biggest city, where local sources reported that 30 civilians had been killed in clashes. "Mortar, machine guns, automatic pistols, rifles, hand grenades. Suddenly all the muceques are aflame," says De Carvalho. "Nobody can get in, nobody dares go out. It's war, but they're not fighting it out in the bush like they used to." So far the U.N.I.T.A. has managed to keep out of most of the fighting, but it has drawn closer to the pro-Western...
Persona Grata. As usual, there were suggestions of CIA involvement. General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, 37, the hot-tempered head of COPCON, the military security command, indirectly implicated American Ambassador Frank Carlucci in the plot and warned him that he "had better leave." Washington denied any involvement, however, and calmer heads in Lisbon declared that Carlucci was still persona grata...
Though censorship was lifted, newspaper editors continued for several days to submit all copy to the censor's office, where a skeleton staff bemusedly stamped Autorizado on everything. Fernando Carvalho, news g editor of the Lourenço Marques daily Noticias said that his paper "is still climbing down from its enforced pro-Caetano posture, trying to explain to the readers why we supported fascists for so long...