Word: nola
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fragile revolutionary government was still intact last week following ten days of political tensions that threatened to bring the country to the brink of civil war. Nonetheless, it had lost its first hero and a good deal of its innocence. General António de Spínola, 64, the hero-general of the Portuguese revolution, split with the young leftist officers who engineered the April coup and resigned as provisional President. In an emotional farewell address on television, Spínola criticized many of the government's policies and warned that they would result in economic chaos, anarchy...
...transfer of power has not made everyone happy, and Portugal's President António de Spínola, whose colleagues had overridden his pledge that independence would come only after a referendum in each territory, looked disgruntled as he signed the documents freeing Guinea-Bissau. In fact, he said not one word during the two-minute ceremony. He is so embittered by the rush toward decolonization that having twice tried but failed to gain for himself stronger powers, he is now said to be on the verge of resigning. He is certain that the guerrilla movements that...
...nola had his own troubles and was busy trying to buttress his position. He could preside, make speeches-but not really rule. When Palma Carlos tried to pressure the Council of State into moving the presidential election up from next year to this autumn, presumably with the expectation that Spínola would be elected President, he was rebuffed. Spínola was accused of trying to gather power in his own hands...
Heavily Weighted. For the moment at least, Spínola remains in power, but the civilian phase of the Portuguese revolution seemed to be nearing an end. At week's end, Spínola named as Portugal's Premier Colonel Vasco Gonçalves, who will preside over a new military-civilian coalition government. But that was no guarantee of stability, since the young officers of the A.F.M. appear as divided as the civilians. Some officers want to pull out of Portugal's rebelling colonies completely; some want an authoritarian government while others, particularly from the navy...
...Alegría, the comparatively progressive chief of staff of the armed forces, was sacked. All during May, General Díez Alegría had regularly received a monocle in his mail-a pointed hint that he should emulate Portugal's António de Spínola and liberate Spain. To foreclose the possibility he was replaced by the more reliable General Carlos Fernández Vallespin...