Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staunch Communists. For another, Gonçalves was out but not down. As Chief of Staff, he would still wield considerable power. The switch did not placate the nine moderate military officers, headed by former Foreign Minister Major Ernesto Melo Antunes, who had campaigned for Gonçalves' ouster on the grounds that he was proCommunist. They declared the decision "illegal" because they were not consulted, and could easily produce a more forceful response...
...swearing-in ceremonies for 18 junior ministers in Lisbon, he said wearily: "It is not simple to be a member of a government team whose duration is expressed in days." At the same ceremony, a bitter Gonçalves declared that the crisis would not end with his ouster "because it is not the figure of the Premier that they are out to bring down but the ideas he defends...
...alves, most workers simply stayed on their jobs. 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...
...were outraged by Gonçalves' ineptness as an administrator and his increasingly close relations with Communist Party Boss Cunhal. Whether or not this assessment was correct, Soares seems to have overplayed his hand. At a mammoth rally of 50,000 Socialist supporters in Lisbon, he demanded the ouster of Gonçalves. Apparently viewing the speech as an attack on the military's ability to rule the country, the Council's members closed ranks and backed Gonçalves...
...cheap labor." The Communists worked persistently within the framework of the legal labor syndicates. By the time of the revolution, they controlled the Bank Workers Union, the Metallurgical Workers Union, the Shopworkers Union and several other major organizations. Their strength was such that in the months prior to the ouster of the old regime, they were able to call out 100,000 workers in wildcat strikes and send thousands of students into the streets-thus setting the stage for the climactic military coup that ended half a century of right-wing dictatorship. Nonetheless, for all their heroism and staying power...