Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portugal (see following story), President Antonio de Spinola resigned with a dramatic warning against the left. Right-wingers in Spinola's postfascist government were quickly purged by the pro-left officers of the ruling junta...
...television, Spínola criticized many of the government's policies and warned that they would result in economic chaos, anarchy and "new forms of slavery." He was immediately replaced by General Francisco da Costa Gomes, 60, an old friend and the second-ranking member of the ruling junta...
...demonstration did Spínola finally call it off. By then, military units and leftist vigilantes had put up roadblocks around the city, searching cars for arms. Some 250 people, many of them prominent figures in the old regime, were arrested. When leftists on the ruling junta ordered Spínola to oust three conservative generals who were believed to be sympathetic to the rightist scheme, he balked-and then resigned...
There are clear and substantive differences between the democratic-leftist politics of Premier Gonçalves and Spínola's more conservative stance. Spínola worried that the junta's policy of allowing all political parties to organize freely would permit the Communists to acquire too much power before the election. He also opposed granting outright independence to the African territories, favoring instead a referendum that would let them unite with Portugal if they chose. In recent weeks, he announced that he was taking the settlement of oil-rich Angola into his own hands...
...solution have still not touched on the essence of the problem: the Palestinian people's fate. These equations will never solve the problem as long as they continue to ignore the Palestinians. That is why military operations are still taking place on different levels between the military junta in Israel and the forces of the Palestinian revolution...