Word: gon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first by an outbreak of violence in the northern and central regions of the country, and then by an open split in the ruling Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.). The split was so serious that it could easily lead to the resignation of the Communist-lining Premier, Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, and the beginning of a more moderate national policy that the vast majority of the Portuguese people would wholeheartedly welcome. But it could also widen to the point of civil...
...document was aimed point-blank at Gonçalves, the orthodox Communists, the Communist-controlled press and labor unions. Equally determined attacks on the same targets were taking place in the tradition-bound, church-oriented regions of the country. In several towns, bloody clashes between attacking moderates and conservatives on the one side, and Communists and soldiers on the other, left at least three dead and many more wounded...
...famous soccer star of Lisbon's Benfica team, Gonçalves spent most of his active military career as an engineer. While still in the army, he earned considerable civilian income as stockholder and manager of a construction firm. A veteran of the wars in both Mozambique and Angola, he was an early opponent of (and frequent plotter against) the Salazar and Caetano regimes. The leftist ideas he picked up in the military also made him an opponent of Spínola after that conservative general became President. When the M.F.A. decided a year ago that the revolution...
...Gonçalves can be counted on to represent those interests energetically, indeed relentlessly. Both admirers and detractors agree that Gonçalves is consumed by his work. He is known as "the man who never sleeps," perhaps as much for his insomnia as his administrative zeal. At his office in the São Bento Palace, he drives his staff relentlessly and has a reputation for exploding in anger when dissatisfied with its work -although he is regarded as a somewhat slapdash executive himself. Devoted to his family (two children), Gonçalves relaxes by swimming at the deserted...
...people and link them with the M.F.A. But his radicalism seems to be of an independent variety that would keep Portugal as distant from Moscow as from Washington. Many foreign observers believe Saraiva de Carvalho is essentially an opportunist who might even join with military moderates to topple Gonçalves and the Communists. The one certain thing is his disdain for politicians. Returning to Lisbon last week after a nine-day visit to Cuba-where he participated enthusiastically in the anniversary celebrations of Fidel Castro's revolution-he announced at the airport that last April's elections...