Word: cunhal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Portugal's aggressive comrades, on the other hand, have revived traditional Socialist fears about the ruthless Communist lust for power. Last November's abortive attempt at a coup cost Alvaro Cunhal's party both power and prestige, but the experience was too close a call for many a wary Socialist...
Even the Communists do not demand an immediate radicalization of Spanish society. Unlike Portugal's hard-lining Stalinist party boss, Alvaro Cunhal, Carrillo claims that he favors a democratic, pluralistic state that would permit basic freedoms. The Communists are in a good position to push their program: they have heavily infiltrated the legal trade union movement, the clandestine comisiones obreras and groups of lawyers, doctors and engineers...
...pointedly said would extend to the news media-a slap at the Communist unions that use the state-owned radio, TV and newspapers to spout the party line. Despite their token representation in the Cabinet, the Communists eye the new regime with scarcely veiled hostility. Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal told cheering followers in Lisbon's Campo Pequeno bull ring that if the government should move too far to the right, "we will join battle...
...past two months, a bitter division within the Armed Forces Movement had brought government in Portugal to a virtual standstill and the country perilously close to civil war. Focus of the dispute was General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 54, a close ally of Communist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal and a woolly-minded Marxist ideologue who favored the creation in Portugal of a socialist state along Eastern European lines. Last week in an apparent victory for moderate forces within the M.F.A., Gonçalves fell from power. In the face of virtually open rebellion by non-Communist officers...
...they have tried to limit the damage by distancing themselves from him. Last week the party newspaper Avante called editorially for "a broad-based government" in which the major political parties would participate. Visiting Costa Gomes early in the week to discuss formation of a new Cabinet, Communist Leader Cunhal agreed that it should represent more of the 80% of the population that Air Force Chief Morais da Silva had talked about...