Word: bitschek
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...population areas are laid out in Orwellian modules, with all the foreign-ministry officials living here, the bank employees there, the military officers over there. Artificially created to open up the frontier and shift the country's balance westward, Brasilia was long considered the "mad city" that Ku-bitschek built, was shunned by officials, who preferred to spend their time in Rio. But Brasilia has been made more attractive with bright colors and expensive trees and shrubs, and its fine university draws students from all over Brazil. Even its night life has picked up, and fully...
...President of the Republic, under the authority bestowed upon him by Article 10 of the Institutional Act, resolves to cancel the legislative mandate and suspend for ten years the political rights of Senhor Juscelino Ku-bitschek de Oliveira." With that terse statement, the new government of Brazil last week ostracized the country's former President on grounds of corruption and Communist-coddling. The government accused Kubitschek of a wide variety of offenses-land manipulations, accepting kickbacks from contractors, making deals with the Reds for political support. So long as the suspension stands, Kubitschek may not run for President...
...Legal. Without a unity of arms to enforce their will, Denys and his allies began to lose control. With Ku-bitschek's backing, Congress went into special session to discuss a constitutional amendment to remold the government from a U.S. presidential system into a parliamentary pattern akin to West Germany's, with a president of weak powers (Goulart) and a strong Premier to be appointed by Congress...
...restore reality to the meaningless fiction of overstated income and understated outgo that passed for a national budget under ex-President Juscelino Ku-bitschek, Quadros issued his own flinty figures for next year. Adding up the funds needed to support the immense bureaucracy and public works program inherited from Kubitschek, Quadros predicted a deficit of $513 million-so great, said Quadros, that "a potential deficit of this size has never before been confessed by a chief of state...
...Carolina, President Juscelino Ku-bitschek is a "wise man living in a golden cage." She warns, "Be careful, wise man. We of the favelas are the cats. And we are hungry." One time a favela woman knocked on a rich woman's door, Carolina recalls. "The senhora of the house told her to wait. Soon she returned with a wrapped package." The beggar woman carried the bundle back to her hovel and eagerly opened it. Inside were two dead rats...