Word: saraiva
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mild earthquake shake Lisbon one morning last week? "It was caused," according to a local joke, "by the general putting his big foot down on the political parties." The officer in question was General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the tough, outspoken boss of the military security force, and the earthquake occurred just as he was making his way to a special assembly of the ruling Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.). There was only one solution to the party bickering that was "causing division and making the people suffer," declared the general, expressing a view that is increasingly accepted as the Armed...
There is no doubt that the military is steadily assuming more and more power in Portugal and that the dominant faction is the one represented by radicals like Saraiva de Carvalho and Admiral Antonio Rosa Coutinho. Recently the admiral proposed that a new political party be organized from the ranks of all the leftist parties, including both the Communists and the Socialists-and the general said it would be even better to bar the parties' existing leaders from "getting in the way." As part of the process of establishing direct ties with the people, the military assembly discussed proposals...
This did little to pacify General Saraiva de Carvalho, who insisted that Soares' social democratic friends in the rest of Europe were simply a "cover for international capitalism," and that "the socialism we are constructing in Portugal could spread like wildfire." The appreciative Communists staged a massive street demonstration in support of the M.F.A. But at midweek, Saraiva de Carvalho's forces cracked down not on Soares' Socialists but on the Maoist M.R.P.P. (Movement for the Reorganization of the Party of the Proletariat). In Lisbon, Coimbra and other cities, the police arrested more than 350 members...
Persona Grata. As usual, there were suggestions of CIA involvement. General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, 37, the hot-tempered head of COPCON, the military security command, indirectly implicated American Ambassador Frank Carlucci in the plot and warned him that he "had better leave." Washington denied any involvement, however, and calmer heads in Lisbon declared that Carlucci was still persona grata...
...addition, Spinola announced the formation of a new security force, COP-CON (for Commando Operacional do Continente), which will have the power to intervene to maintain order. Heading COPCON will be left-leaning Brigadier General Otelo Saraiva de Carvahlho, 37, the audacious young firebrand who organized the April revolution down to the tons of red carnations that suddenly blossomed all over the country as the rebels' symbol...