Word: manifestoes
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...gold-trimmed blue coats, white breeches and tasseled pillbox hats and are meant mostly for display. Ignoring all the basic rules for carrying out a coup, Gonzalez neglected to close down Quito's airport and take over its radio stations−one of which refused to broadcast his manifesto on the ground that it sounded unbelievable. He also generously allowed Rodriguez's wife and children to leave the palace, thereby giving away one of his few bargaining cards. Early Monday morning, Quito stations began broadcasting a roll call of officers who remained loyal to Rodriguez. Air force planes...
...Even Communist Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal appeared to be backing off from his staunch support of the Premier. In talks with Costa Gomes, Cunhal said that the Communists would not make an issue of Gonçalves' ouster. Earlier, at a rally, he conceded that the moderates' manifesto had some "good points...
...streets last week carrying army officers to midnight rendezvous with political allies. Headlights flashed signals in parking garages. To elude detection, shadowy figures flitted from one car to another, then sped away. Some clearly feared for their lives, especially the nine dissident officers who issued the now famous moderate manifesto attacking the ruling troika for dragging Portugal toward a Communist dictatorship. Their leader and the author of the manifesto, former Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes, was reported to be spending each night in a different place to avoid, in the words of one Western diplomat, "getting snagged by some freelance...
...alves, were very much on the defensive. Gonçalves was clinging desperately to his position, ignoring demands that he resign. But the cabal of officers intent upon ousting him has generated such impressive support that Gonçalves' days seemed numbered. Melo Antunes' moderate manifesto, with its call for a gradual, pluralistic approach to socialism, had won the backing of a majority in the armed forces -some estimates went as high as 85%. Just about every officer of any consequence in the country had signed the document, and military units with some 70,000 men were reportedly...
...manifesto flatly rejected as a model for Portugal a "socialist society of the East European type." Yet it warned that the country "will be fatally led" to precisely that model unless it rids itself of "a political leadership that obstinately believes that a vanguard with a very narrow social basis can make the revolution on behalf of all the people." This cannot be achieved, the document went on, "with the present leadership team, in view of its lack of credibility and manifest inability to govern...