Word: nola
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...Portugal's uncertain future was the corps of young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the group that overthrew the Caetano dictatorship on April 25. The A.F.M. appointed old soldier António de Spínola, 60, as Provisional President and established an unlikely coalition government of Communists, socialists, military men, left-center groups and independent technocrats. But the government simply could not govern. Divided, buffeted by an annual 30% inflation rate and demands for price controls and sweeping economic reforms, lacking in political experience and hobbled by an A.F.M. requirement of unanimity on all projects, it could...
...Prime Minister Adelino da Palma Carlos, 69, a moderate law professor appointed by Spínola, conditions were intolerable. The Cabinet he headed was not of his choosing, and he had no authority over it. Among other things, he insisted that the Council of State, which is dominated by the military and acts as the country's watchdog committee, draw up a constitution and elevate him to something more than a mere "Cabinet coordinator." The council agreed to let him appoint Ministers but refused him added authority...
...Sellout. So far, most of Angola's 500,000 whites and 250,000 people of mixed blood seem willing to stay on and take their chances. President António de Spínola's assurances that there will be an orderly transfer of power have helped, and so has the moderate tone of most black political pronouncements within Angola. "Money is basically cowardly," observes a Portuguese banker in Luanda, the Angolan capital. "At present it is staying here, but unless confidence continues, it will flee." In the central plateau city of Nova Lisboa, an insurance executive told...
Having fought in Angola against F.N.L.A. guerrillas in the early '60s, General Spínola is well known and respected there. "When he makes his long-awaited visit, probably this week," reports Correspondent Griggs, "he will be expected to provide a sort of wholesale reassurance to the entire population: to the black poor, that economic racism is finished and a better life awaits them; to the black politicians, that the power will be theirs as promised; and to the whites, that there will be no sellout to extremism when, after 500 years, the Portuguese go home at last...
Communist Discipline. Spínola is expected to be named Provisional President, but other posts are being sought by politicians who until April 25 were either outlawed or at least barred from sitting in the rubber-stamp National Assembly. Socialist Leader Mario Soares, 49, who 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...