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...bloc in Congress, reducing the bloc to a minority with only one-third of the votes. The government's extreme action also drove the PSD back into its old alliance with the Labor Party of deposed President Joao Goulart. Through it all, the revolutionary government of Humberto Castello Branco stood its ground, stolidly went ahead with still another "purge" list that may run to 500 names...
Kubitschek's supporters prepared a White Paper to "prove" his innocence, sent a petition to President Humberto Castello Branco. The Brazilian Council of Bishops also did some petitioning. "Let those who are accused have the sacred right of defense," the bishops pleaded. Answered the chairman of the Central investigating Committee: "Defense is impossible...
...Million Boost. The government's mightiest weapon, however, promises to be an emergency tax law to reduce the estimated $1.1 billion budget deficit for 1964. That, says Castello Branco, is "the primary cause of our inflation," and he has already rammed through Congress a bill to increase revenues by $500 million or more this year...
...make the point crystal clear, Castello Branco's tough old War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva went on TV last week to remind everyone that the military will stand for no monkeyshines. "Go and pay now, gentlemen," he warned, "so that we do not have to come and get it from you. You owe a great deal to the revolution; and the government needs that money...
...last month alone, executives of 35 major U.S. corporations have been scouting São Paulo, and this week six leading Brazilian businessmen will travel to New York-at Banker David Rockefeller's behest-to talk with 100 other U.S. prospects. "Only by creating wealth," says President Castello Branco, "can we distribute it justly among all Brazilians. We intend to support and stimulate capital...