Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Madrid Bureau Chief Gavin Scott did most of the reporting from Lisbon, where he has good sources close to the ruling three-man junta. "Some of the military and government officials may say they are indifferent to world attention," Scott reports, "but from my experience, they seem to relish it." Within 48 hours of his arrival in the Portuguese capital in October 1974, Scott had arranged to talk with the President, the Premier, and the chief of the nation's Communist Party. The accessibility and volubility of Portuguese leaders contrasts sharply with the remoteness of government officials...
...came to regard the repressive Caetano government and the oligarchic capitalists who supported it as their real enemy rather than the African revolutionaries. Toppling the old regime, the military found, was surprisingly easy-the coup was almost bloodless, and it was accomplished in 17 hours. Ambitiously dubbing itself the Junta of National Salvation, the new regime chose as its head António de Spinola, the popular general who had publicly criticized the Caetano regime for continuing the war against the rebel movements in Portugal's African territories. Spinola and the M.F.A. pledged that within a year elections would...
Leftist Gains. The disorder offended Spinola's sense of discipline. Moreover, his plan for dealing with Portugal's African territories was being resisted by his junta colleagues. He had envisioned Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Angola forming a loose federation with Portugal. Leftists within the M.F.A. sided with revolutionaries in the territories and demanded complete independence. In June 1974, Spinola barnstormed across Portugal, visiting army bases and addressing enthusiastic crowds. His message: Portugal's revolution must not be exploited by extremists...
...Costa Gomes, 61, is the kind of avuncular friend that others turn to in moments of crisis. Thus, although he did not take an active role in the April 1974 revolution, he was the first choice of the captains and majors who led the armed forces to head the Junta of National Salvation. After the coup succeeded, he was appointed chief of staff of the armed forces by the new government. When his old friend António de Spínola was ousted as President of the revolutionary government, Costa Gomes was the logical man to take over...
...reports that under his rule, thousands of Greek political prisoners had been held in Athens' Korydallos prison. Last week Papadopoulos himself, after seven months in Korydallos, became the principal defendant in a mass trial at the prison. Along with 19 other former members of the ousted military junta, the ex-dictator was charged with acts of high treason and insurrection that had subjected Greece to 7½ years of dictatorship, from 1967 to 1974. The maximum penalty for insurrection: death by firing squad...