Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against guerrillas in three African colonies, the messages could not have been clearer. After We Say Goodbye was an alert that this was the night the army would move against the totalitarian regime of Premier Marcello Caetano. "Dark land" meant that this was the moment to launch the coup. Thus began one of the few coups in which military officers threw out a totalitarian regime and declared their intention to establish a democratic government-instead of vice versa. In time, the shock waves sent out by the coup may be felt more strongly in Africa than in Lisbon itself...
President Bok said last night that he does not know how the Portuguese coup will affect Harvard's shareholder policy in corporations with operations in Portuguese colonies...
...ACSR reported that it abstained on the resolution because last week's Portuguese military coup changes "the context in which the resolution was originally proposed...
...fate of all of the colonies will be determined to some extent--but by no means wholly--by the outcome of the political contest now going on in Portugal in the aftermath of the coup. The leader who has emerged most prominently is an unlikely liberal, Gen. Antonio de Spinola...
...response to a strengthened insurgency, or perhaps in expectation of it, the white Portuguese settlers in Angola and Mozambique may decide to stage a preventive coup, similar to the one in Rhodesia, and install a white minority government not attached to Portugal. A desire for independence from Portugal among the white colonists--who number close to 10 per cent of the population--dates back to the 1950s, when many realized they could reap the benefits brought by a cheap labor force and rich resources without sharing them with Lisbon...