Word: galv
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerned with upholding the old order. Many Spaniards suspected, for example, that the promised new chamber of the Cortes would do little to reduce the power of the National Council, which is dominated by the Francoist right wing. "I thought the speech would be conservative," declared Socialist Enrique Tierno Galván, "but I didn't think it would be reactionary." Added a high Communist leader: "Nothing has changed. It is the same as before...
...plight of the refugees worsens, their anger grows. Most are furious at the successive Portuguese governments that agreed to grant Angola independence. Few differentiate between Communists, Socialists and other left-wing parties in Portugal. Luis Galvào Lopes, 39, formerly an Angolan office worker, spoke for many refugees last week when he cursed the former Portuguese high commissioner for Angola, Admiral António Rosa Coutinho, calling him "Red Rosa" and the carrasco (executioner) of the refugees. What about a moderate like Socialist Leader Mário Scares? "The garbage is all the same," he answered...