Word: brazil
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Some foreign political leaders have also returned to action after heart attacks. Pakistan's Prime Minister Chaudhri Mohamad Ali* had a heart attack in 1952, when he was Finance Minister. Brazil's João Café Filho has recovered from his November heart attack at least to the point of demanding- without success-that he be given back his job as President. Canada's M. J. Coldwell, leader of the CCF (Socialist Party), was a heart patient three years ago, stayed in politics, and just last week completed a tour in which he made 50 speeches...
...import beef cattle from Argentina to keep them going. Batlle Berres is sure to have a few words to say about wheat, especially since the U.S., carrying a big surplus itself, is beginning to cut into Uruguay's markets by selling to dollar-short customers such as Brazil, for local currencies (TIME, Nov. 28). U.S. spokesmen for their part may have some polite suggestions about the desirability of whittling down state controls and giving the free economy a chance...
...another coup, but a sequel to Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott's bloodless "preventive revolution" (TiME, Nov. 21). Last week War Minister Teixeira Lott was again the man in charge, and again his avowed purpose in calling out the troops was to defend the constitution against Brazil's so-called golpistas: the military-civilian faction that favors a golpe (coup) to keep President-elect Ju-scelino Kubitschek and leftist Vice President-elect Joao ("Jango") Goulart from taking office next January. Teixeira Lott reportedly has no burning admiration for Kubitschek, but he considers himself duty bound...
...President? It was a matter of heated debate in Brazil last week just who was the nation's constitutional President...
...decided that he felt well enough to take over again. Last week Teixeira Lott called on him at a Rio nursing home, hinted that the army might let him return if he would agree not to make any Cabinet changes. Snapped Cafe Filho: "I am the constitutional President of Brazil. I will not accept or discuss terms." The following day, after his doctors had pronounced him fit. Cafe Filho notified Congress that he was resuming office "as of this date." But by then. Rio was already aswarm with soldiers and policemen acting under Teixeira Lott's orders...