Word: cunhal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farms; another 1.8 million acres are slated to be taken over. The amount of land to be returned is about 50,000 acres, less than 2% of the total expropriated. But the Communist-controlled farm unions object to the parcels chosen to be returned, and Communist Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal warned that the Socialists will now "have to respect the will of the people in the Alentejo." Agriculture Minister Antonio Barreto temporarily suspended government credit to some cooperatives that had not rendered accounts and warned that Lisbon will not allow the Alentejo to become a Communist state-within-a-state...
...personality to put him across-is favored by 14% of the voters; ultra-leftist Army Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho should get 11 % of the vote. The Communist candidate, Octavio Pato, the party's No. 2 man and considered more acceptable than Stalinist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal, trails with a mere 3%. If Eanes does not get an absolute majority, he will then face a runoff election, probably with Pinheiro de Azevedo-a contest that everyone expects the former Chief of Staff to win handily...
Seeking to make the most of the results, Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal assessed the election as a "victory for the left," meaning a popular mandate for a coalition of Socialists and Communists. But Cunhal's rivals did not agree. Describing the vote as a clear rejection of the Communists, Sà Carneiro called for a coalition of center parties that would bar a role for Cunhal. Socialist Leader Mário Soares insisted that he would deal with no one and promised to try to form a minority government...
...hours. Listening intently were some 5,000 Soviet delegates and hundreds of foreign guests, including Cuba's Fidel Castro (who sported the only full beard in the hall), North Viet Nam's Le Duan, Italy's Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer and his Portuguese counterpart, Alvaro Cunhal. Brezhnev's speech seemed carefully crafted to convey a double message. While it extolled the benefits of détente-of which Brezhnev has been Moscow's principal architect-it implied that the Soviets are prepared to intervene almost anywhere in the world if "bid by our revolutionary...
...Felipe Gonzalez ruled out an exclusive Socialist-Communist partnership in his country, preferring a broader coalition that could include progressive Catholics and anyone else seeking a "democratic rupture" in post-Franco Spain (see story page 42). Manuel Alegre, deputy head of the Portuguese Socialist Party, charged that Cunhal's Communists in Lisbon "conduct themselves like a party from another planet and another...