Word: dos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that is to write a new constitution, but its terms were sharply circumscribed. The major parties bowed to the M.F.A.'s demand that the military oversee operations of the government for the next three to five years. It was made plain that the present Cabinet of Premier Vasco dos Santos Goncalves would not be substantially changed, no matter what the electoral outcome. In it, the Socialists, Popular Democrats and Communists each have two portfolios, and the Democratic Movement one. Real power will remain with the 28-member Revolutionary Council, composed of President Francisco da Costa Gomes, Premier Goncalves...
...address to the Portuguese people not long ago, the new premier. Vasco dos Santos Goncalves a member of the High Council, told them that "hard times" lie ahead. While Goncalve's assessment may be true, not only for Portugal's economic situation, but for its delicate political transformation-constantly threatened by the return of an entrenched fascism that no coup could have eradicated in one year-Portugal's elections come as a welcome sign. They provide an example for those countries around the world laboring under the illusion of egalitarianism, an example of a Freely chosen Socialist state...
Despite his unusually low-keyed manner, Portuguese Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves could not conceal his anxiety about the troubled days his country faces. In a wide-ranging press conference last week in Lisbon, the intense, hard-driven Premier 1) announced a plan to make the Armed Forces Movement and its 28-member Revolutionary Council a formal part of the government for up to five years; 2) pledged that Lisbon would continue its commitment to NATO, although he added that the Lajes airbase in the Azores could not be used to resupply Israel in the event...
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...
After two weeks of intense political infighting, Portugal last week got its fourth provisional coalition government since last April's revolution. The new 21-member Cabinet, headed by Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, predictably confirmed the country's lurch to the left in the aftermath of an abortive right-wing coup staged three weeks ago by forces loyal to former President Antonio de Spinola. Unlike the preceding Cabinet, it has a majority of civilians (14) rather than military men (seven), but it is also clear that Communists and proCommunists predominate...