Word: saraiva
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, invited to speak at Harvard by the Center for European Studies (CES) and also by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been refused permission to leave Portugal by the General Chief of Staff, Pedro Cardosa...
Radical newspapers of both the left and right pointed out that the populist General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho had been condemned by the Socialists and moderate officers for condoning distribution of army weapons to leftist workers...
...United People's Electoral Front banner, staged an unexpectedly strong comeback from the June presidential elections, when their candidate got less than 8%, to take third place with 18%. The conservative Center Social Democrats (C.D.S.) got 17%. The big losers were the far-left supporters of Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, who drew off many Communist votes in June; this time they...
...notable victory for law-and-order and a stunning defeat for the Communists. Eanes, the tough, austere army chief of staff who put down a leftist military uprising last November, won 61.5% of the vote, trouncing far-left candidate Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (16.5%), seriously ailing Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo (14.4%) and the Communist standard-bearer Octavio Pato (7.6%). Although Eanes' victory was less a personal triumph than a vote of confidence in the three non-Communist parties that backed him-the Socialists, Popular Democrats and conservative Center Social Democrats-the general is expected to wield...
Giving an ad hominem edge to his words, Eanes expressed dismay at the unexpected good showing of Saraiva de Carvalho and warned Portugal's self-styled Fidel Castro not to carry his "campaign of agitation" beyond the election. Saraiva de Carvalho, who will soon face trial for his alleged part in the leftist uprising that Eanes put down last fall, preached "people's power" during the campaign and called for the creation of workers' assemblies that would eventually do away with parliamentary democracy. In the Lisbon industrial belt, particularly in big factory towns like Setubal, Saraiva...