Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added that because of their small numbers, students in Brazil are considered an "elite" group. This makes them particularly conscious of the role they will play in their government, he said...
Many thought the second half of the program was inadequate, however. "It is just as impossible for an American with a necessarily limited view of Brazil to give viable solutions for problems there as it would be for a Brazilian to suggest solutions for such a difficult problem as civil rights" Dallari said...
...their own ground rules, Brazil's revolutionaries were supposed to hold an election Oct. 3, 1965, and then turn the country back to a popularly elected President. Contemplating all the things wrong with Brazil, the new civilian and military leaders considered that too little time to work out the necessary reforms. Last week the Brazilian Congress extended President Humberto Castello Branco's term and set the election for Nov. 15, 1966. A second vote, scheduled for this week, will make it official...
Castello Branco can well use the ex tra months. In a series of TV broadcasts last week, the President and his Cabinet described how much has to be done. Brazil's state-owned railway system is losing $1,000,000 a day, the social security system, which still owes $40 million on last year's debts, cannot meet present commitments, and the country's overall federal deficit this year will reach $425 million-one of the highest in Brazil's history...
...Brazil's Maria Bueno, 24: the women's All-England tennis championship, beating Australia's defending champion, Margaret Smith, in three sets, 6-4, 7-9, 6-3; at Wimbledon. Recovered at last from the hepatitis that kept her out of action for six months. School-teacher Bueno relied mostly on flat, efficient ground strokes to score her second major victory over the 21-year-old Aussie in less than a year (the other: the U.S. nationals at Forest Hills last summer). Said the weary winner: "Everybody said it would be difficult to come back-and they...