Word: gon
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...document protesting Portugal's drift toward an Eastern European brand of socialism and calling for a return to a pluralistic political system. The nine claimed to have the support of 90% of the people and 85% of the military. They reportedly demanded that the President get rid of Gonçalves within a week...
...Costa Gomes, grave and unsmiling, hurriedly drove back to Lisbon's Belém Presidential Palace. A moderate himself who had successfully managed to keep the warring factions within the government at bay since becoming President last October, Costa Gomes seemed plainly resigned to replacing Gonçalves. At swearing-in ceremonies for 18 junior ministers in Lisbon, he said wearily: "It is not simple to be a member of a government team whose duration is expressed in days." At the same ceremony, a bitter Gonçalves declared that the crisis would not end with his ouster "because...
...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...
...Communist government of Portuguese Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves lurched closer to collapse last week (see THE WORLD), the general paused to heap invective on an unexpected enemy. "Certain organs of the Portuguese press are today bordering on the near obscene," Gonçalves roared at an audience in a high school gymnasium near Lisbon. "Their looseness with freedom impairs freedom of the press." That might seem an odd complaint from a man heading a regime that has permitted Communist-dominated unions to gag nearly all of the nation's newspapers and every television and radio station...
...advertising man, earlier this month ran an exposé of what it called a secret government plan to impose censorship and fines of up to $20,000 for sins like "neglect of duty to sensitize the population to the great national tasks." Social Communications Minister Jorge Correia Jesuino, a Gonçalves intimate, refused to discuss the scheme, but even government-controlled papers hastily denounced it. Since then, an anti-Communist slate has easily won control of the nation's 358-member journalists' union. Thirty of the 54 editorial staffers of the government-controlled daily...