Word: nio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...various military factions, the country is politically and economically weary. Following the fall of Socialist Premier Mario Scares' minority regime in mid-1978, the squabbling factions in the National Assembly were unable to agree on a new government. So last summer Portugal's President, General António Ramalho Eanes, called an election in hope that a "coherent" left-of-center government would emerge. It was not to be. Last week, when a record 87.5% of the electorate went to the polls, the vote instead went narrowly to a new center-right coalition called the Democratic Alliance...
...Strasbourg, the spanking new European Parliament chose as its first President the elegant and brainy Simone Veil, 52, a former French Health Minister, a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death camp and one of the Continent's hottest political properties. In Lisbon, President António Ramalho Eanes abruptly chose as interim Premier Maria de Lourdes Pintassilgo, 49, a chemical engineer and women's rights advocate now serving as Portugal's delegate to UNESCO in Paris...
...Portugal has a new manager," exclaimed Walter Marques, a director of the Bank of Portugal, last week. So it had. President António Ramalho Eanes had ended a two-week-long government crisis by tapping his favorite industrial technocrat, Consulting Engineer Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 55, to follow Socialist Party Leader Mário Soares as Premier...
...cage." So said Portugal's Socialist Party Leader Mario Soares last week, after emerging from the country's presidential palace in Belém. In fact, the jowly, amiable politician, known as "Chubby Cheeks" among his countrymen, had just been fired as Premier by Portugal's President, General António Ramalho Eanes. After two years as Portugal's first freely elected Premier since the 1974 April revolution, Soares will leave office as soon as Eanes appoints another Premier. And when he goes, Soares will take the 11 Socialist members of his 16-member coalition Cabinet with him. At week...
...scheduled national elections in 1980. If he does that, the leading contender for the Premier's job will be Colonel Mário Firmino Miguel, a political independent who served as Soares' Defense Minister. Firmino Miguel almost became Premier in 1974, when he was the choice of then President António de Spínola, but was forced aside by leftist army officers who eventually ousted Spínola. Now Firmino Miguel may get a second chance ?something almost as novel in Portuguese politics as having a stable elected government...