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...plant and Italy's Pirelli is building a wire and conductor factory. Other European groups are setting up ventures in canning, batteries and cement forms. Last week the U.S.-backed Inter-American Development Bank chipped in $29.5 million to help finance a $79 million expansion of the Paulo Afonso hydroelectric plant on the San Francisco River in the Nordeste...
...last Brochado da Rocha found 13 "nonpolitical" ministers acceptable to everyone. The two strongest members of a lackluster Cabinet: Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos, who held the same post under Janio Quadros, and Walther Moreira Salle, Brazil's leading banker, who holds over as Finance Minister...
...Silva made one last show of bravado, announced: "We will fight to the end." But Silva's ill-equipped, 3,000-man army, which Nehru had said was "massing menacingly," had other ideas. Only real show of Portuguese resistance was put up by the 1,783-ton sloop Afonso de Albuquerque. Steaming out of Marmagão harbor, the little frigate exchanged fire with an Indian cruiser and two destroyers for 45 minutes. Her captain badly wounded, the crippled ship was finally beached. Less than two days after Indian troops crossed the frontier, the Portuguese surrendered. The night after...
...final surrender to the popular will-after the parties released him from all commitments. The timing and execution of last week's resignation showed similar calculated recklessness. There were a few riotous demonstrations, including the stoning of the U.S. embassy in Rio* by 200 students. Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos urged Congress to "refuse the resignation, or else there will be chaos and civil war." And across Brazil, the pleading began for Quadros to return-presumably on his own terms again. His resignation would not become final until it is published in the official government gazette. But at week...
...serious talk of diplomatic exchanges. Of the $2 billion in paper deals drummed up in the East, realistic Brazilians expect only a fraction. Says a senior U.S. diplomat in Rio: "If Khrushchev thinks he can make a sucker out of Quadros, he's badly mistaken." Adds Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos: "Brazil will not recognize the Soviet Union offhand, and will not recognize Red China for two or three years-certainly not until it is accepted at the U.N. We are committed to vote for debate on the Red China issue, but will not vote in favor of Red China...