Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...significant power. Although the Communists will suffer greatly from Gonçalves' demise, they have tried to limit the damage by distancing themselves from him. Last week the party newspaper Avante called editorially for "a broad-based government" in which the major political parties would participate. Visiting Costa Gomes early in the week to discuss formation of a new Cabinet, Communist Leader Cunhal agreed that it should represent more of the 80% of the population that Air Force Chief Morais da Silva had talked about...
...alves' fall was triggered−inadvertently−by Costa Gomes. After first bowing to moderates' pressure two weeks ago and dismissing Gonçalves as Premier, he then sought to appease the radicals by naming Gonçalves as chief of the general staff−the country's top military post. This move set off an increasingly hostile reaction within the M.F. A. The first ranking officer to speak up against Gonçalves' appointment as chief of the general staff was the air force commander, General Jose Morais da Silva, who spoke out against...
Annoyed by this insubordination, Costa Gomes summoned Morais da Silva to Lisbon's Belem Palace to deliver a reprimand. But then the army chief of staff, General Carlos Fabiao, also spoke out against Gonçalves. The bearded Fabiao called an all-day meeting of army officers at Tancos, 80 miles north of Lisbon, to discuss the situation. "Speaking in the name of the army," Fabiao told newsmen before the convention, "I doubt that the figure of Vasco Gonçalves contributes anything to the unity of the army−to the contrary...
Boycotts and Shouts. The denouement came late Friday, when Costa Gomes convened the M.F.A.'s General Assembly at Tancos, hoping to gain its backing for the appointment of Gonçalves as chief of the general staff. But the meeting was boycotted by delegates from both the army and the air force, which sent only their chiefs of staff to represent them. It degenerated into a shouting match. Seeing how little support he had, Gonçalves accepted the inevitable and−in the euphemistic phrase of the official communiqué−"declined the place of chief...