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...Democratic renovation" is what revolutionary President Humberto Castello Branco calls his program for Brazil. To get the job done, in a country plagued by inflation, corruption and ineptitude after years of freewheeling politics, Castello Branco has assumed near-dictatorial powers while maintaining his devotion to constitutional democracy. Inevitably, his efforts have pleased no one -neither the moderates and leftists, who complain about his muffling of politics, nor the military's linha dura (hard line), which scoffs at his loyalty to democracy. In a series of swift . strokes over the past fortnight, Castello Branco struck back-not hard enough...
Shut Up. The first stroke went left, when 100 "intellectuals," mostly students and writers, staged a noisy demonstration at the OAS foreign ministers' conference in Rio. Waving banners proclaiming "Down with dictatorship! Up with democracy!", they put on an unpleasant little scene just as Castello Branco drove up to open the conference at the Hotel Gloria. Nine of the leaders were clapped in jail for illegally demonstrating against the government. Last week, the conference over, they were released, and their supporters, who were planning a protest rally, were left with nothing to protest...
...Goulart 20 months ago. They took bitter issue with the President's determination to honor the results of the October gubernatorial elections in eleven states-including Guanabara (Rio), where the surprise winner was an old-time politician whom the military has been grilling about Communist ties' Castello Branco reacted by shutting down a far-rightist military group known as LIDER, then bolstered his strength at the First Army's huge base outside Rio by putting one of his most loyal generals in charge. With that, the President cleared the way for the installation of the eleven...
...Meanwhile, Castello Branco is pursuing other quarry. It has long been a casual tradition among moneyed Brazilians to ignore income taxes or report only a fraction of their true earnings. Last year only 150,000 Brazilians bothered to file returns at all. Last week investigators were probing the 100 biggest evaders, whose declarations have been "out of line with ostensible evidences of wealth." They face jail sentences of up to two years...
...part of the OAS peace-keeping machinery, delegates will also discuss organizing a permanent Inter-American Peace Force, on the order of the temporary force now in the Dominican Republic. Brazil's President Humberto Castello Branco made no secret of his views. "We must acknowledge," he told delegates, "the inanity of our wanting collective protection and action without first creating effective machinery for collective decision-making and joint action." This is likely to stir a storm of protest from such ardent defenders of nonintervention as Mexico and Chile...