Word: gon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portuguese Democratic Movement, which is generally regarded as a front for the Communists (the M.D.P. denies it) to the Maoist Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat, a noisy, university-based party, hundreds of whose members were jailed during the Communist-influenced regime of ousted Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves. Hydraheaded, the extreme left is united in at least one goal: to overthrow the present moderate government...
...only bright prospect for the Pinheiro de Azevedo government is that it will soon start receiving financial and technical help from abroad. As long as the pro-Communist regime of Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves remained in power, the U.S. and Western European governments held back. Now, Western nations are prepared to discuss aid programs which, for a start, could total more than $200 million...
...With Gonçalves out of the way, Premier-designate Admiral José Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo−a leftist who seems acceptable to the military's moderate and radical factions−may now be able to assemble his Cabinet. He had been stalled because the Socialists and Popular Democrats, who together polled 64% of the vote in April's election, refused to participate in any government so long as Gonçalves retained any significant power. Although the Communists will suffer greatly from Gonçalves' demise, they have tried to limit the damage by distancing...
...Gonçalves rushed to Tancos to make an emotional plea for support, but he soon sensed that the mood of the meeting was strongly against him. "I came here to engage in selfcriticism, not to provoke disunity. Since this is not understood, I'm going away." By a 4-to-l margin, the army assembly voted to press for Gonçalves' ouster. So did a similar convocation of air force officers; they backed General Morais da Silva's argument that Gonçalves' appointment "could lead to a dictatorship of the minority...
Boycotts and Shouts. The denouement came late Friday, when Costa Gomes convened the M.F.A.'s General Assembly at Tancos, hoping to gain its backing for the appointment of Gonçalves as chief of the general staff. But the meeting was boycotted by delegates from both the army and the air force, which sent only their chiefs of staff to represent them. It degenerated into a shouting match. Seeing how little support he had, Gonçalves accepted the inevitable and−in the euphemistic phrase of the official communiqué−"declined the place of chief...