Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three major air bases and two other air-force installations, along with Air Force headquarters in downtown Lisbon. The moves were well-coordinated, and the leftists, who had earlier taken over Lisbon's television station, began broadcasting anti-government propaganda. The rebels then waited for President Francisco da Costa Gomes, known to some of his detractors as "the Portuguese marshmal-low," to give in to their demands, which included the ouster of Air Force Chief José Morais da Silva...
...President Costa Gomes did not have enough trouble in Lisbon, General Atlino Magalhàes, military governor of the Portuguese Azores, last week warned that the islands would not accept a government that was unrepresentative of the Portuguese people. The statement was interpreted as a veiled threat that Magalhàes and the island's other military commanders may join forces with the secessionist Azorian Liberation Front (FLA) if near anarchy continues to dominate Portuguese politics. The right-wing FLA, which advocates independence for the Azores, has proved nettlesome in the past; late last month it fomented riots against...
Tentative Step. Costa Gomes, known in Lisbon as "the cork" because he always seems to bob up on top of every political crisis, waffled as usual. Addressing the crowd outside the palace as "my dear friends and comrades," he warned that if the Portuguese people did not reconcile their differences, they risked "a reaction from the right that could lead them to a regime similar to that in Chile." Nonetheless, he assured them, "while I am in this place, I will do everything possible to see that the reforms that are made in this country under any government will always...
After a meeting with Costa Gomes, Pinheiro de Azevedo emerged visibly angered. Only the week before he−along with 150 members of the Constituent Assembly−had been imprisoned for 37 hours in Sao Bento Palace by a mob of 60,000 construction workers seeking a 30% pay rise. After the meeting with the President, he told reporters: "I am fed up with being held prisoner. It is time the President resolved this crisis...
...revolution, realizes that it must come to some kind of agreement or it will be impossible for any government to operate. At week's end, the Revolutionary Council urged that the Cabinet return to its duties and try to resolve the crisis. But there are new rumors that Costa Gomes might appoint an all-military Cabinet in hopes of ending leftist defiance of the government within the armed forces...