Word: cunhal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portuguese Communist Party (P.C.P.), whose 36-man Central Committee collectively racked up more than 300 years in jail under the old regime, has benefited from the tight organization established when the party worked underground. Despite years in prison and exile, Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal, 60, Minister Without Portfolio in the provisional government, has become the best-known politician in the country. The Communist program is relatively moderate, calling for agrarian reform and nationalization of banks and insurance companies. Its heaviest support comes from workers and tenant farmers in the impoverished Alentejo region in the south...
...since he has foes potentially stronger than ever in the young officers and the large Communist Party. The ubiquitous red-and-yellow hammer-and-sickle party posters in every Portuguese town indicate that the Communists are the best-organized and -financed party in the country. Minister Without Portfolio Alvaro Cunhal, 60, the Communist leader, has emerged as the government's best politician after Spinola. Counseling moderation and condemning the Maoist left and labor unrest, Cunhal says that his short-term aim is the nationalization of transportation, mines, steel and "other fundamental sectors," plus agrarian reform. Cunhal's speeches...
...Still, Cunhal admits that in the long range the Communists will work for complete nationalization. "I am a Communist," he says, "and I can't hide my great dream." But Cunhal's dream is a nightmare to many others in Portugal, from the old aristocratic families that control most of the country's major businesses to the Socialist Party, which is bidding for more leftist support but is not so well organized as the Communists. The strength of the Communists clearly causes Spinola concern. "We cannot consent to the installation of a dictatorship under the cover...
...Cabinet maintains a semblance of the revolutionary government's political coloration, but civilian representation has been pared down. Socialist Leader Mario Scares remains as Foreign Minister, while the Communists' Alvaro Cunhal continues as a minister without portfolio. The Communists, however, lost the important labor post to a young air force captain, who presumably will be more inclined to take a tough stand against demands for higher wages. The Popular Democrats, a left-center party that had two portfolios in the old Cabinet, now have only one post...
Cheering Citizenry. Portugal's new Premier is Adelino da Palma Carlos, 69, a moderate who is a law professor with a reputation as an apolitical technocrat. Alvaro Cunhal, 60, the Moscow-oriented Communist Party chief who returned from exile in Eastern Europe, was named minister without portfolio; his party deputy, Avelino Pacheco Gonçalves, 35, is Minister of Labor. Moderate Socialist Leader Mario Scares, 49, who has conducted a sweeping tour of Europe since the coup, is Portugal's new Foreign Minister...