Word: veiga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most worrisome signs of protest came from the armed forces. Admiral Gabriel Pita da Veiga y Sanz, 68 -the only member of the Cabinet who had also served under Franco-angrily resigned as Navy Minister, telling Suarez that he could not sit in a government that had legalized Communists. There were fears that a number of other senior officers would follow him out of the government. But at a stormy 3½-hour meeting of the Superior Council of the Army, the hard-liners backed down; the officers expressed their "revulsion" at the government's action, but they agreed...