Word: socialist
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...Communists, the Popular Democrats and the Socialists each retained two portfolios in the enlarged Cabinet, and the Democratic Movement was given one. But Socialist Leader Mario Scares was replaced as Foreign Minister by Major Ernesto Melo Antunes, who was Scares' chief assistant in negotiating the independence of Portugal's African territories of Mozambique and Angola. Antunes, a Marxist moderate, is not expected to make any significant changes in foreign policy, particularly with regard to Portugal's ties to NATO. Like Communist Secretary-General Alvaro Cunhal, Scares will remain as a minister without portfolio. That is a considerable...
...rally in Lisbon's bullring. Scares declared pointedly, "We want to construct a socialist society in Portugal with respect for liberty, not copied after foreign models - neither Russian nor Swedish nor Chinese but Portuguese." And at another rally, in Coimbra, he told several thousand followers, "The people have a right to know if an authentic democracy is to be established; or is it to turn into a dictatorship...
...book has been praised by Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Sociologist (and Socialist) Michael Harrington and other academicians. It has been vigorously denounced by multinational executives, including PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall, who says that the book displays an anti-growth bias that "sounds like a great leap backward to the Dark Ages." Both sides have ammunition: Global Reach is an odd blend of reasoned argument and far-out fantasy...
...week's end the new coalition had still not been announced. Government ministers said that the new Cabinet, like the outgoing one, would be predominantly military with perhaps a larger representation of Communists, who formerly held two posts. One rumored change was that Mario Soares, the Socialist leader, might lose his post as Foreign Minister, although Conçalves was believed likely to keep him in the Cabinet in some position...
...government has sought to exhibit an air of calm about recent events in Portugal, there is no question that it is extremely concerned about the centrifugal pull the Portuguese revolution could have on Spain. The regime's response has been to clamp down even more. Says one leading Socialist: "The Old Guard is praying desperately that the Portuguese revolution will fail. Although the government is saying nothing, we know many of its members are secretly delighted that Portugal seems to be moving to a military dictatorship of the left. This is bad news for us too. We want...