Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan did not emerge until week's end, 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...
...plan is a clear victory for Gonçalves, who earlier this month was fighting for his political life when sentiment mounted in the Revolutionary Council to oust him after the collapse of the Cabinet. They were apparently persuaded by President Costa Gomes, the perennial seeker of compromise within the military movement, that it was not the hour for decision. Gonçalves' survival is also an ominous plus for his ideological mentor, Communist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal...
Last week the 24 OAS members began a twelve-day meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica. This time the odds were even stronger that the embargo would end. Reason: Washington has become more positive, not toward Cuba directly but toward the freedom of Latin American nations to pursue their own course on the matter...
...crisis had erupted over the issue of whether the country would be able to make its fragile coalition government work or would dispense with political parties altogether and install either a military government or an outright proletarian dictatorship run by workers' commissions and neighborhood committees. President Francisco da Costa Gomes, fresh from a bridge-building visit to Rumania, went into extraordinary, round-the-clock sessions with the 29-member Revolutionary Council, the government's highest authority. Said a Western diplomat in Lisbon: "This is the most critical point of the revolution...
...Brands had paid to a high official in Honduras in order to win a reduction in export taxes on bananas (TIME, April 21).* Last week the company disclosed that the U.S. Attorney in New York had subpoenaed documents relating to other possible payoffs in Italy, West Germany, Panama and Costa Rica...