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After Leftist Joao Goulart was deposed last March, Brazil's new government declared all-out war on three items that had become Goulart's trademark: Communism, corruption and inflation. By last week President Humberto Castello Branco and his revolutionaries had dealt forcibly with the first two. Inflation is proving far more difficult. Nowhere in Latin America is inflation so deeply and strongly rooted -until it has become as much a part of Brazil as carnival and the inky cafè-zinho Brazilians sip at corner coffee bars...
Against Rockefeller, a onetime trustee of the Urban League, Faubus has also returned to the all-out segregationist stands that made him a national figure in 1957. Last month he shouted about Negro demonstrators: "The first time they lie down in the streets to block traffic of a legitimate business, they're going to get run over. And if no one else will do it, I'll get in a truck and do it myself...
...firing any sort of nuclear weapon is based largely on the so-called "fire break" theory. That theory holds that the single step from use of the largest gunpowder weapon to use of the smallest tactical nuclear weapon would mean crossing the "fire break" area between limited war and all-out, intercontinental, thermonuclear disaster. Says Vance: "Once you use any nuclear device, no matter how small, you move completely into another world...
...navy last week and has at best about 50 aircraft (presumably none of them jets), her well-trained and high-spirited army numbers about 300,000, backed by a 150,000-man militia. These troops could be checked in a major drive into South Viet Nam only by a direct, all-out U.S. effort. (Last week a North Viet Nam infantry regiment stared across the Ben Hai River at a reinforced Saigon division in South Viet Nam. Neither showed signs of moving.) Hanoi's greatest weakness in such a drive would be her vulnerable supply routes...
...all-out effort to halt the epidemic, 3,000 of the soldiers are under drastic quarantine. These are the men who have been on Fort Ord's 29,000 acres of hills and wind-blown sand dunes for less than eight weeks. For reasons that still have medical researchers baffled, only the rawest recruits seem subject to the disease. After a man has spent two months on the post, he apparently develops immunity, and cases among the permanent party are virtually unknown...