Word: branco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tightening the Grip. As the impact of the elections sank in, the military mutterings grew so loud that President Castello Branco was forced into a move that would only make his government even more unpopular. In return for not interfering with the results, the stern linha dura (hard line) officers won the promise that Castello Branco would send new proposals to Congress tightening the revolution's hold on the country through military courts and police. Most important, the military wants to change next year's presidential elections from direct balloting by the people to indirect balloting by Congress...
Whether Castello Branco will actually send such proposals to Congress, and whether Congress can be pressured into passing them, remains to be seen. What is clear is that Juscelino Kubitschek, the man who built the new inland capital of Brasilia and thrilled the country with a thousand other dreams, has re-emerged as the major political force in Brazil...
Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara, and Magalhaes Pinto, governor of Minas Gerais, have both been running hard to become President of Brazil in 1966 when Castello Branco is scheduled to step down...
...Destroy Them All." By last week the bees had invaded Rio's main busniess Street, Rio Branco. A swarm like a great black watermelon was hanging in front of the Armed Forces Military Command building, and African bees were attacking civilians after driving sentries away from their machine-gun Posts. Reported casualties: more than 60 'Cariocas" stung and a couple of bees that had been bold enough to dive bomb cars and buses...
Many supporters of Castello Branco feel that something more than merely the Ineligibilities Law will indeed be needed to keep his government in power after next year's presidential election. That something is to change Brazil's form of government from presidential to parliamentary, replacing direct election of the President with indirect election by Congress. In such an election, the choice almost certainly would fall on Castello Branco. Until now, he has resisted the change. Last week, with Castello Branco's blessing, a congressional commission began studying a constitutional reform that could open the door...