Word: nio
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...decision," he says. "We are tired of waiting on the doorstep." Soares warns that if Portugal is not let in soon, it "will find other alternatives." The country is already dependent on the U.S. for a large portion of its foodstuffs, including 90% of its wheat. President António Ramalho Eanes was in Washington last week for talks with President Reagan and other Administration officials on topics like the renewal of the lease for use by the U.S. of the Portuguese air base in the Azores...
...leftists to conservative industrialists believe the President's stringency could cause a domestic disaster. Two weeks ago, Central Bank Chief Carlos Langoni, who thinks the government's targets are unrealistic, quit in protest and was replaced by Affonso Celso Pastore. An ally of Planning Minister Antônio Delfim Netto, the country's economic boss, Pastore is likely to support the domestic clampdown. Pastore, 44, is a former state finance secretary and economics professor at the University of São Paulo...
...nio R. Lopes Scituate, Mass...
Brisk and impatient as always, Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro arrived at Lisbon airport last week anxious to fly off to Oporto. There, with national elections scheduled for Sunday, he planned to deliver a final hortatory salvo to promote his presidential candidate-but no relation-General António Soares Carneiro. With the Prime Minister, in the twin-engine Cessna C-421, were his longtime companion, Danish-born Snu Abecassis; Defense Minister Adeline Amaro da Costa and his wife; Cabinet Chief António Patricio Gouveia and two pilots. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane lost altitude. It sheered...
...center-right majority coalition (134 of 250 seats) composed of his own Social Democrats along with rightist Christian Democrats and monarchists. Determined to strengthen his power to amend Portugal's Marxist constitution by electing a more like-minded President, Sá Carneiro opposed respected centrist President António Ramalho Eanes in this week's elections. His candidate, General Soares Carneiro, was an obscure rightist whose main credential for office seemed to be the conservative ideas that he shared with Sá Carneiro's Democratic Alliance...