Word: cunhal
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...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...
...Defensive. In fact, both appeared to be losing ground swiftly. When the Communist-dominated trade union organization, Intersindical, called a half-hour general strike as a show of support for Gonçalves, most workers simply stayed on their jobs. Even Communist Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal appeared to be backing off from his staunch support of the Premier. In talks with Costa Gomes, Cunhal said that the Communists would not make an issue of Gonçalves' ouster. Earlier, at a rally, he conceded that the moderates' manifesto had some "good points...
...wave of anti-Communist violence throughout the conservative north in the past few weeks has clearly left the Communists on the defensive. At least 50 party headquarters have been sacked, six persons killed and hundreds injured. Cunhal himself narrowly escaped injury when a mob attacked a rally at which he was speaking in Alcobaça, north of Lisbon. Three days later, when the military said it could not guarantee his safety, Cunhal canceled a scheduled rally in Oporto, the country's second largest city...
...troubled waters" and that the Portuguese must solve their problems "in an atmosphere free from the pressures of outside interests." Studiously ignoring the Kremlin's substantial aid to Portuguese Communists,* Pravda charged that "NATO interests" and "reactionary forces" were meddling in Portugal and called for solidarity with Cunhal's Communists...