Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Francisco da Costa Gomes in a radio-television speech, appealed for calm and said the government was in complete control He blamed the reactionary adventure" squarels in his presidential predecessor and former comrade-in-arms. Gen. Antonio de Spinola...
...young officers of the Armed Forces Movement who engineered last April's revolution promised elections within a year-and last week they made good on that promise. From his desk in Lisbon's pink stucco Belém Palace, President Francisco da Costa Gomes announced that the government had set April 12 as the date for Portugal's first free elections in 49 years. The balloting for a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution, Costa Gomes said on TV, marked "a fundamental milestone" on the path to democracy. Cautioning voters against extremists of both the left...
...least a passing involvement in the Administration's marketing of ambassadorships. During a House hearing in July, Nixon's lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, recalled being told by Flanigan to get in touch with a department-store millionairess, Ruth Farkas, because "she is interested in giving $250,000 for Costa Rica...
...Costa Gavras, the creator of Z and State of Siege also made a film called The Confession about the Slansky trials (Czech purge trials) in the late forties. With Yves Montand. This is the beginning of a C-G series at B.U.'s Hayden Hall. Tonight...
...ceremony climaxing the summit, Portugal's President, General Francisco da Costa Gomes, called the agreement "a realistic solution to the respective interests of [Angola's] people." Less sanguine observers, however, fear that the domestic peace will be fragile and temporary at best. To many in Angola, it smacks of the same slapdash arrangements the Belgians made before handing the Congo over to bloody civil war in 1960. The majority think it is little more than an improvised device to get rid of Angola with meaningless lip service to safeguards for whites...