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The hope proved hollow. Before the convention delegates could reassemble, the three principal parties of the Protestant United Ulster Unionist Coalition caucused at Stormont. Among the subjects discussed was the convention's mandate: that some formula be found for power sharing acceptable both to Ulster's 1 million...
According to Wylie, the most important goal of the convention-backed candidates is for the liberal coalition to "gain control of the crucial fifth seat." The current council is composed of five Independent moderates, and the four liberal members backed by the convention.
The fall of Gonçalves represents the most devastating setback that military radicals and their Communist supporters have suffered since the start of the April 1974 revolution. The new Revolutionary Council appears to lean solidly toward the moderate-center; it contains seven moderates, eight swing officers and only four...
Gonçalves' fall was triggered−inadvertently−by Costa Gomes. After first bowing to moderates' pressure two weeks ago and dismissing Gonçalves as Premier, he then sought to appease the radicals by naming Gonçalves as chief of the general staff−the...
The new Premier's political leanings are not known. But after visiting Washington in May, he declared that the U.S. State Department had a realistic appreciation of Portugal's political situation. Later in Brussels at a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, he said that it was...