Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the swearing-in, the council had decreed the nationalization of Portugal's banks and insurance companies, which control more than half of the country's industries. Last week Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, who together with President Francisco da Costa Gomes remains at the head of the provisional coalition government, asked for the resignations of his 15-member Cabinet, banned three political parties that were accused of inciting violence and postponed elections for a constituent assembly until April...
Rival Rallies. Even before that, the council moved swiftly against what Costa Gomes described as "those few persons who cannot distinguish between being free and being liberated, confusing democracy with the absence of authority and legality." Two radical leftist parties, the tiny Alliance of Workers and Farmers and the student-dominated Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat Party (M.R.P.P.), were banned. Both were accused of staging violent street demonstrations and disrupting rival political rallies, but some observers thought that they were being eliminated at the behest of Portugal's Moscow-oriented Communists. "The Communist game is to play...
...uprising erupted, the government rushed reinforcements into position around the presidential palace at Belem and the headquarters of the rightist Republican National Guard. Less than three hours after the aerial attack, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gongalves announced that the coup had been crushed. That night President Francisco da Costa Gomes denounced it as "a reactionary adventure" designed to disrupt the forthcoming elections and named his old friend, former President António de Spínola, 64, as its leader...
...come in from foundations like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. A New Alchemy Institute West has been set up in Pescadero, Calif., south of San Francisco. The Canadian-born Todd plans to build a new ark on Prince Edward Island, Canada; another offshoot is being started up in Costa Rica, where McLarney is now looking for other varieties offish to raise...
...most of the Chileans living and studying in Massachusetts, together with such wide and representative organizations as. The World Council of Churches. The Organization of American States. The Catholic Church of Santiago. The World Bank Review The United Nations, Amnesty International, and the Governments of Mexico, Sweden, Germany, England, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Italy (among others) have a very different view of contemporary Chile from the one held by Nicolas Bilbikopf (The Mail, January...