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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...
...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...
Brazil's doughty President Humberto Castello Branco is caught in a bind. He has promised to hold gubernatorial elections in eleven states (out of 22) in October and a presidential election next year; his revolution, he says, "is not afraid of the ballot box." But because Castello Branco has a scruple against outlawing the opposition, one of the contenders for votes will be the Brazilian Labor Party, the power behind the inflationist, leftist regime that Castello Branco overthrew last year. The President is counting on electoral courts to use the new Ineligibilities Law to keep off the ballot candidates...
...Castello Branco's cause fared less well in the state of Minas Gerais. There the government sought to have Sebastião Paes de Almeida, 53, a multimillionaire industrialist-turned-politician, thrown out of the gubernatorial race for "abuse of economic power"-his legendary largesse at election time has earned him the nickname "Tião," after a famed Brazilian train robber. The state electoral court refused to cancel Paes de Almeida's candidacy. "If that section of the law does not apply to him," grumbled one Castello Branco aide, "we might as well...
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...