Word: gon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week of riots, protests, rumors of coups and countercoups, and opaque behind-the-scenes deliberations by the country's confused and divided military rulers. The major problem facing the Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.) was to set up a new government under leftist Premier General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves. The previous Cabinet-the fourth since the April 25, 1974 revolution-collapsed this month when Socialists and other moderates resigned. Reason: they were protesting an M.F.A. plan to set up local revolutionary councils that would bypass the authority of the elected Constituent Assembly (TIME, July 28). At week...
...plan did not emerge until week's end, after a 14-hour speech-filled meeting of the M.F.A.'s 240-man General Assembly. The scheme: to grant virtually unlimited powers to a triumvirate of generals, made up of President Francisco da Costa Gomes, Premier Gonçalves and Internal Security Forces Chief Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, an ultraradical populist. The 30-man Revolutionary Council, the M.F.A.'s Politburo, presumably will yield almost all of the lawmaking authority it has enjoyed since assuming active rule of the country following the abortive right-wing coup last March. Under...
...Gonçalves will now try to assemble a new Cabinet. Although it will contain a handful of civilians, its power will be even more negligible than it was before. Moreover, the Cabinet members would have to serve as individuals and not as representatives of the political party to which they belong-thus conforming to the M.F.A.'s arrogant dictum that it and it alone speaks for the people and the revolution...
Last week's tension was heightened by uncertainty over the complexion and direction of the regime. The military dissolved the shaky coalition Cabinet when the last of the moderates walked out. At week's end General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, Portugal's Premier, was still trying to form a new Cabinet of military men and civilian technocrats. Meanwhile observers in Lisbon believed that a movement was mounting within the 30-man Revolutionary Council of the divided M.F.A. (Armed Forces Movement) to oust the strongly pro-Communist Gonçalves as Premier...
...starched fatigues ran up the new flag of the People's Republic of Mozambique. As tribal dancers beat animal-skin drums and a 21-gun salute boomed outside Machava Stadium, the militantly Maoist President of the new state, Samora Moises Machel, 41, embraced Portuguese Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves. Thus ended 477 years of Lisbon's colonial presence in an African territory that until 15 months ago the Portuguese had vowed they would never surrender...