Word: brasilia
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...most harassing burden in Latin America, Brazil is fast becoming almost as big a one. Last week, in another of those flash moves that the New Frontier is so addicted to. President Kennedy sent his brother Bobby winging down to the modernistic outback capital of Brasilia to present Brazil's President Joao ("Jango") Goulart with some home truths, as seen from Washington. Kennedy and Goulart talked for three hours in the library of the presidential palace. When the two emerged, Goulart looked grim...
Roll the Presses. Inflation is a familiar and painful word to Brazil. From 1956 to 1961, Juscelino Kubitschek, a President in a hurry to develop his nation, printed carloads of currency to finance industrial projects and build the inland capital of Brasilia. His presidential successors, first the erratic Jânio Quadros and now Joao Goulart, an opportunistic labor leader, have kept the presses rolling-as much to catch up with prices as to continue building Brazil. At the accelerated pace inflation has lately taken, an end must come some time soon, and Goulart undoubtedly knows it. But politics...
...free-spending Social Democrats and President Joao Goulart's leftist-nationalist Laborites-hung on to their powerful blocs in the country's fractured Congress, and that suggested that Brazil is in for more and worse trouble. So loud was the squabbling in the outback capital of Brasilia in the last session that Congress proved itself incapable of passing legislation aimed at solving Brazil's desperate economic and social problems. It rarely even produced a quorum. Since then, the problems have only grown worse. Last week Finance Minister Miguel Calmon reported that Brazil owes foreign oil suppliers...
Brazil. After a six-week testing of wills with the country's fractious Congress, President Joao ("Jango") Goulart and his Prime Minister, Francisco Brochado da Rocha, finally managed to achieve a kind of truce. In the Brasilia capital, Brochado da Rocha bluntly told Congress: "We are living at the door of a revolution. This government lacks the power to govern." That, plus his threat to resign, seemed to sink in. Legislators granted the government a package of emergency powers to keep the country together until next October's congressional elections, plus a promise to vote on returning Brazil...
...because they had resolved their difficulties or agreed on the best man, but because they realized that Brazil had just about reached the edge of safety, and could not stand a further prolongation of the bitter, partisan bickering. The new government that took office in the outback capital of Brasilia represented an expedient truce between warring factions...