Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruling junta-which represents the Armed Forces Movement and is led by General António de Spínola, 64, a monocled, swashbuckling counterinsurgency hero turned reformer-has pledged to form a provisional government this week. As that deadline approached, no fewer than 54 different political parties, ranging from Maoist splinter groups on the left to monarchists favoring the restoration of the House of Bragança on the right, stepped up their jockeying for influence. All wanted to be part of the interim coalition that will govern Portugal until general elections are held next spring...
...returned in triumph from Paris four days after the coup, proclaimed: "We are ready to assume the highest responsibilities of office." Another former exile and Soares' principal rival on the left, Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal, 60, had no sooner unpacked his bags than he began negotiating with the junta for the job of Labor Minister. Because of the rigid discipline the Communists had been forced to exercise during their years as an outlawed underground movement, they have emerged as the most organized political party in the country. But the military retains control, and its leaders hope that...
...other end of the spectrum, Portugal's wealthy industrialists and the oligarchic "100 families" who virtually own the economy have been desperately maneuvering and power-brokering to keep the junta from making concessions to restive workers. The junta's headquarters in the Presidential Palace has been besieged daily by laborers petitioning for better conditions and pay. Lisbon postal clerks, who now earn about 4,000 escudos ($160) a month, erected a banner demanding higher wages. The banner originally called for 6,000 escudos, but by week's end the figure had been raised...
Emboldened union leaders were threatening strikes against a number of big companies, including the privately owned National Steel Works. Civil servants were holding union meetings during working hours so frequently that the junta departed from its rhetoric of permissiveness long enough to warn that if such disruptions continued, they would be regarded as "insubordination against the Armed Forces Movement...
...childishness of this kind of humor is overshadowed only by its morbidity. This spring thousands of opponents of the Chilean Junta are facing secret trials and executions. This raises to prime importance the placing of immediate international pressure on the Junta by the working class. The Crimson's response is to wallow in self-complacent irony...