Word: carvalho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although about 38% of the electorate is still undecided, the current Premier, Admiral Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo-who is not backed by any political party but is counting on his personality to put him across-is favored by 14% of the voters; ultra-leftist Army Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho should get 11 % of the vote. The Communist candidate, Octavio Pato, the party's No. 2 man and considered more acceptable than Stalinist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal, trails with a mere 3%. If Eanes does not get an absolute majority, he will then face a runoff election, probably with...
...page government report that blamed the botched uprising on a wide array of leftists in the military, the labor movement, the Communist Party, the press and the now defunct COPCON security forces. The night after the report was released, flamboyant former COPCON Chief Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, who had served as part of Portugal's short-lived ruling troika (TIME cover, Aug. 11) was arrested at his home outside Lisbon. Saraiva de Carvalho, who had been demoted from general to major after his ouster from COPCON, protested his innocence. Said he: "My imprisonment must be part of an offensive...
Saraiva de Carvalho is the self-designated "Fidel Castro of Europe" who was responsible for festooning Lisbon with red carnations during the 1974 April revolution that overthrew former Premier Marcello Caetano. His arrest indicated how far to the right Portugal has moved since last November. Some 150 high-ranking military officers and government officials have been imprisoned for alleged involvement in the fall revolt, and more arrests were expected to follow last week's report. To make room for the leftists, the government of moderate Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo has quietly released nearly all of the political...
...declared exultantly: "The people know that this country would be in the hands of the Communists or in a civil war if it were not for the Socialists. Who got rid of [the former proCommunist] Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves and who got rid of Saraiva de Carvalho? We did!" Scares declared that "the extremist left is finished" and dismissed Communist charges that Portugal might be subject to a new right-wing takeover by conservative leaders in the military. Said he: "We have the situation under control...
Although some slow progress has been made by UNITA forces toward Teixeira de Sousa and Henrique de Carvalho (see map page 17), the military sit uation on the ground remained relative ly unchanged last week. Despite Soviet military aid and the help of 7,500 Cu bans, the M.P.L.A. holds only about a quarter of the country. But State De partment officials concede that Neto's leftist government has a big lead over the other two factions not only in fire power but in organization and experi ence. Assessing the three groups, one U.S. diplomat observes: "The M.P.L.A...