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...confidence," observed a Lisbon businessman. "Right now, I'd accept anything except the Maoists if the government could only make it stick." Foreign investors have been scared off by the constant flux of the M.F.A.'s policies, and speeches such as that last week by Premier Gonçalves before a labor leaders' meeting in Lisbon. "Ours is a fight to the death against capitalism!" he boomed. "The forces of great capital, whether domestic or international, are multiple...
...Scenarios. Veteran observers of Lisbon's often baffling politics see two possible scenarios in the ensuing months; both focus on the left because rightist forces at present are completely scattered and discredited. One scenario is a relatively quick disintegration of the troika, with Gonçalves as the likely loser and the mercurial Saraiva de Carvalho emerging as a new strongman. Despite his popularity with the radical masses, the charismatic boss of the security forces would polarize discontent; he could only govern by imposing the kind of repressive measures the April 25 revolution supposedly abolished for good. Cunhal...
VASCO DOS SANTOS GONÇALVES, Premier, is the ideologue of Portugal's top leadership and probably its most intellectual figure. One of the chief architects of the revolution, Gonçalves, 54, is described by his supporters as "austere and scholarly," a man passionately committed to the cause of social justice in Portugal. His detractors say he is volatile and emotionally unstable, a self-righteous, temperamental missionary who fervently believes he knows what is best for the Portuguese people -whether they like...
...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...