Word: saraiva
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment, at least, Portugal's fate rests with the three generals who constitute the ruling Directory: President Francisco da Costa Gomes, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves and Internal Security Forces Commander Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (see box page 26). Last week the Directory was installed by the Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.), the revolution's founding group, and assumed powers previously wielded by the M.F.A.'s 30-man Revolutionary Council. There were immediate signs that the new triumvirate's opponents could expect tough treatment. Arriving back in Lisbon after a visit to Cuba, Saraiva...
...lately has been keeping a very low profile, will be any happier with the troika than Soares is. Creation of the Directory might even be a curb on Gonçalves, since he must share his power with President Costa Gomes, a conciliatory moderate, and with the ambitious Saraiva de Carvalho, a radical leftist who has no use for orthodox Communists. Even the six moderate officers who had boycotted the preliminary meeting, at which the proposal for creating the triumvirate was sketched out, seem to have kept their seats on the Revolutionary Council. When radicals attacked the six dissidents, Costa...
...often baffling politics see two possible scenarios in the ensuing months; both focus on the left because rightist forces at present are completely scattered and discredited. One scenario is a relatively quick disintegration of the troika, with Gonçalves as the likely loser and the mercurial Saraiva de Carvalho emerging as a new strongman. Despite his popularity with the radical masses, the charismatic boss of the security forces would polarize discontent; he could only govern by imposing the kind of repressive measures the April 25 revolution supposedly abolished for good. Cunhal's party might be forced back into...
...after a 14-hour speech-filled meeting of the M.F.A.'s 240-man General Assembly. The scheme: to grant virtually unlimited powers to a triumvirate of generals, made up of President Francisco da Costa Gomes, Premier Gonçalves and Internal Security Forces Chief Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, an ultraradical populist. The 30-man Revolutionary Council, the M.F.A.'s Politburo, presumably will yield almost all of the lawmaking authority it has enjoyed since assuming active rule of the country following the abortive right-wing coup last March. Under the new plan, the Council becomes a consultative body...
...April's elections, would be insignificant in such a body. The incidents were symptomatic of a growing power struggle involving not only the Socialists and the Communists but also an emerging "populist" third group, even further to the left than the Communists, led by the erratic General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, 39, commander of the national security force...