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...fledgling U.S. wanted a national capital with no ties to either North or South and created Washington (1790); the Australians moved their capital to the new city of Canberra (1927); and Brazil-with many of the problems of Mexico-boldly developed Brasilia...
...gatherings could not have been more different in style. The military-backed Social Democratic Party met at Brasilia's modern convention center, where a brass band blared, girls flounced in colored costumes, and banners, balloons and neon signs proclaimed the names of the party's two candidates. The opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement Party gathered in a building in the heart of the city, but apart from the crowded parking lot, it was hard to tell that a meeting was even taking place. There were no bands or pretty cheerleaders, and posters and banners introduced not candidates but issues...
Last week the moment of decision arrived. The clock in Brasilia's fetid, smoke-filled Chamber of Deputies nudged 2:15 a.m. on Thursday as spectators squirmed restlessly after 17 hours of rasping debate. Then the result of the voting was announced: the opposition had failed to get the two-thirds majority necessary for the amendment to pass. Figueiredo was able to sway the vote in his party's favor by engaging in some personal last-minute lobbying. He countered with a compromise amendment that would initiate direct elections not next year but as early...
Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado visited Brasilia last week to confer with his Brazilian counterpart, Joào Figueiredo. The two leaders had some blunt words for their creditors. Figueiredo complained of high interest rates that "threaten to perpetuate our foreign debt problems." De la Madrid said, with much justification, that Latin America could not boost exports enough to pay its debts if creditor countries erected "ever increasing protectionist measures" against imports from the developing nations. The day before De la Madrid spoke, the Reagan Administration announced a cutback in the number of products allowed to enter...
...Israeli planners soon turned to studying Jerusalem's needs instead of international-style manifestoes to fashion their own city rather than another Brasilia. Heeding Historian Lewis Mumford's advice, they looked not to Baron Haussmann, who in the mid-19th century modernized Paris by cutting boulevards through the city's medieval fabric, but to Isaiah 65: 19, 21: "And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people . .. and they shall build houses, and inhabit them...