Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coup unleashed long-repressed frustrations. "We fell asleep a half-century ago and have just now woken up," said an old woman in Lisbon. Across the country, hundreds of mini-coups erupted: bakers, lawyers, engineers, journalists and architects ousted the leaders of their unions. Workers took over factories or else demanded huge wage increases-often up to 200%. An alphabet soup of initials covered walls, posters and newspapers, as scores of political parties were formed, ranging from monarchist to Maoist. More ominously, the much persecuted Communist Party (see box page 28) emerged from the underground as the nation...
...M.F.A.'s intrusion into the political process became nearly complete after Spinola ineptly allowed himself to be associated with a poorly planned, abortive rightist coup last March. In its aftermath, Spinola fled to Brazil, while the M.F.A. moved swiftly to institutionalize its power. A Revolutionary Council, composed entirely of military men, was endowed with sweeping legislative and administrative powers...
...avuncular friend that others turn to in moments of crisis. Thus, although he did not take an active role in the April 1974 revolution, he was the first choice of the captains and majors who led the armed forces to head the Junta of National Salvation. After the coup succeeded, he was appointed chief of staff of the armed forces by the new government. When his old friend António de Spínola was ousted as President of the revolutionary government, Costa Gomes was the logical man to take over...
...rose slowly through the ranks, earned a degree in mathematics from the University of Oporto in 1944, and served two years of NATO duty in Norfolk, Va. He commanded Portuguese forces in Angola from 1970 until 1972 and was armed forces chief of staff until shortly before the coup, when he and Spínola were sacked during the old regime for refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to former Premier Marcello Caetano...
...several other major organizations. Their strength was such that in the months prior to the ouster of the old regime, they were able to call out 100,000 workers in wildcat strikes and send thousands of students into the streets-thus setting the stage for the climactic military coup that ended half a century of right-wing dictatorship. Nonetheless, for all their heroism and staying power, the Communists were able to garner only 12.5% of the vote in last April's election-leaving them still very much a minority party...