Word: carvalho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after a 14-hour speech-filled meeting of the M.F.A.'s 240-man General Assembly. The scheme: to grant virtually unlimited powers to a triumvirate of generals, made up of President Francisco da Costa Gomes, Premier Gonçalves and Internal Security Forces Chief Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, an ultraradical populist. The 30-man Revolutionary Council, the M.F.A.'s Politburo, presumably will yield almost all of the lawmaking authority it has enjoyed since assuming active rule of the country following the abortive right-wing coup last March. Under the new plan, the Council becomes a consultative body...
...elections, would be insignificant in such a body. The incidents were symptomatic of a growing power struggle involving not only the Socialists and the Communists but also an emerging "populist" third group, even further to the left than the Communists, led by the erratic General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, 39, commander of the national security force...
...pluralistic democracy. But it rejected the Socialists' bid to enlarge the powers of the Constituent Assembly, which is limited to framing a new constitution. In a gesture to the populists, workers' committees will be permitted, but they will not be allowed to form in the military as Carvalho had wanted. At the same time, the Council warned that the parties in the coalition government must come up with programs to solve the country's worsening economic problems by the end of July "or the present coalition will be considered inadequate...
There is no doubt that the military is steadily assuming more and more power in Portugal and that the dominant faction is the one represented by radicals like Saraiva de Carvalho and Admiral Antonio Rosa Coutinho. Recently the admiral proposed that a new political party be organized from the ranks of all the leftist parties, including both the Communists and the Socialists-and the general said it would be even better to bar the parties' existing leaders from "getting in the way." As part of the process of establishing direct ties with the people, the military assembly discussed proposals...
This did little to pacify General Saraiva de Carvalho, who insisted that Soares' social democratic friends in the rest of Europe were simply a "cover for international capitalism," and that "the socialism we are constructing in Portugal could spread like wildfire." The appreciative Communists staged a massive street demonstration in support of the M.F.A. But at midweek, Saraiva de Carvalho's forces cracked down not on Soares' Socialists but on the Maoist M.R.P.P. (Movement for the Reorganization of the Party of the Proletariat). In Lisbon, Coimbra and other cities, the police arrested more than 350 members...