Word: blacklistings
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...said Marshal Taurino Rezende, chairman of the revolutionary government's Central Investigating Committee. Brazilians could put it another way: compared with corruption, practically everything in Brazil has been insignificant. When the new government of President Humberto Castello Branco had completed its housecleaning with a tenth and final political "blacklist" of prominent Brazilians accused of Communism or corruption prior to the overthrow of President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart, corruption indeed seemed to have first rank...
Last week Juscelino Kubitschek-not long ago considered the front-running presidential candidate for the 1965 elections and one of his country's most durable public figures-was fighting for his political life. Some time before June 14, Brazil's National Security Council will blacklist another group of Brazilians accused of Communism or cor ruption, depriving them of all political rights for the next ten years. On the list will be Congressmen, Senators, diplomats, businessmen, at least three state Governors, and some Cabinet members who served under deposed President Joao Goulart. At the top of the list, unless...
...sell 400 heavy 45-passenger buses for $10 million plus $1,100,000 worth of spare parts. The company gave Castro five years to pay, threw in an option for another 1,000 buses and agreed to train whatever mechanics were needed. To get around the shipping blacklist, Leyland first asked the British government for the loan of an aircraft carrier; when that request was ignored, the company announced that East German freighters would handle the order...
...allowed 5,000 common Anglicisms (and 30,000 technical ones) to divide Gaul. The august French Academy is so alarmed that it has decided to "unleash an offensive in favor of the defense of the French language." Mounting the barricades, the academy's dictionary commission will prepare a blacklist of "foreign" words that are impropres à la langue...
...Presidents, since 1945 Hollywood's unflagging champion as head of the Motion Picture Association; following a stroke; in Washington. A handsome, athletic extravert, Johnston began as a Spokane vacuum-cleaner salesman, became the Northwest's biggest independent appliance distributor. As movie watchdog, he led the campaign to blacklist movie Communists, coped with foreign competition by quietly liberalizing production codes to the point that even the once-rejected The Moon Is Blue was deemed nonblue enough to pass muster. In 1953 he went to the Middle East for President Eisenhower and proposed a plan for sharing the Jordan...