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...President would be chosen by the electoral college, which is controlled by the National Renewal Alliance, the government party. The government offered to pay $1,600 to each elector who showed up to vote; as a result, there were few empty seats in the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia on election day last week. Geisel picked up 400 of 497 votes. So predictable was his election that he did not even bother attending the voting session...
Punctilious Protocol. Rogers had an even more awkward time in Rio de Janeiro. There he waited for three days before flying to the capital of Brasilia for an official welcome. The reason: his counterpart, Foreign Minister Mário Gibson Barbosa, along with President Emílio Médici and the rest of Brazil's top officialdom, was away on a visit to Portugal. Protocol dictated that Rogers could not see anyone-or leave Rio -until Barbosa returned. He could easily have arranged either to stay at home or to fly back...
Impressed with the Garibaldi resort's $5,000-a-month profit, the Brazilian government is lending Santini more than $2 million to build similar complexes near Rio, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Recife and Brasilia. Making money, though, was not on Santini's mind when he began his quixotic quest to put Brazilians on skis. "My real ambition," he says, "is to see a Brazilian ski team in the Olympics-even if they finish last...
Bodard is stunned by the cold beauty of Brasilia, the new futuristic capital designed by the socialist architect Oscar Niemeyer. The city, Bodard says, has been given "the face of socialism in its purest state, the face of political commissaries in a totally futuristic Kremlin. But the truth is that there is no socialism in Brazil and no socialism in Brasilia. It is only a dream...
...newspaper, L'Humanité, has taken to dressing up its dreary polemics with color pictures for weekend editions. The staid old Paris Communist headquarters, with its fortress-like steel doors, has been abandoned for a new glass-fronted building, designed by Brazilian Communist-sympathizer Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brasilia. But nowhere has the new look been more evident than in the party's annual Festival of Humanity...