Word: cunhal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lisbon's Sports Pavilion for what was more a bell-bottomed social occasion of the chic Estoril set than a serious political meeting. On Wednesday night, the Communists drew 60,000 in the May 1 Stadium. While vendors hawked red flags, buttons and pens, Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal intoned: "We Communists appeal to civic duty and order...
SOUTHERN EUROPE. Communists have made gains in Italy, Greece and, most significantly, in Portugal, a strategically vital NATO ally. Last week radical Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves chose a new 21-member Cabinet, including Communist Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal, who is the most rigidly Marxist boss in Western Europe. The further lurch to the left increased fears that Portugal would eventually become a Communist dictatorship. In Washington, Kissinger spoke of "an evolution in which there is a danger that the democratic process may become a sham, and in which parties are getting into a dominant position whose interests...
...Scares' chief assistant in negotiating the independence of Portugal's African territories of Mozambique and Angola. Antunes, a Marxist moderate, is not expected to make any significant changes in foreign policy, particularly with regard to Portugal's ties to NATO. Like Communist Secretary-General Alvaro Cunhal, Scares will remain as a minister without portfolio. That is a considerable comedown for the Socialist leader, who has frequently been mentioned as a possible Premier in a future civilian government. Scares and other moderates seemed weary and depressed by the swift turn of events that in only three weeks...
...final analysis, the implications of Portugal's leftward turn may not be quite so bleak as they would at first appear, at least in the short run. No responsible Portuguese political leader, including Communist Party Leader Cunhal, has suggested that the U.S. give up its airbase in the Azores - yet. But many have hinted that the facility is a question for "later." As for NATO, even the Communists are notably reluctant to make any threats about pulling out of it, repeatedly declaring that "the question is one for five years from...
...modest man who keeps his private life so quiet that no one even knows whether he is married. Cunhal attributes the party's success to tireless organization. In Path to Victory, published in 1964, he wrote: "Those who witness great struggles by the masses . . . many times imagine that they appear by magic, as a result of spontaneous indignation of the people or perhaps through emotional appeals. The truth is that only through careful organization can they succeed...