Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Disney's famed photographers have spent two years in Brazil's Amazon rain forest filming the habits of the jaguar. Color...
Joao Goulart, deposed president of Brazil, hated the United States and countries that fawningly follow its policies. He refused to support anti-Castro sanctions. He was an anti-American, pro-Brazilian radical social reformer who admired Communist China but was too great a nationalist to be Communist himself...
These, roughly, are the facts, and one can do whatever one wishes with them. One can argue that the army acted to save democracy, and to banish Communism from Brazil. The argument is supported by the probability that Goulart planned to rule, at best, by Gaullist plebiscite and by the fact that in its first two days the army regime has arrested two thousand Brazilians which it has labeled Communists...
...enemy of Goulart who backed the coup, insists this is not enough. He wants the Congress purged of its "pro-Communist elements," namely the Labor Party congressmen. If he and his allies gain ascendancy as the new government takes shape--it must select a new President within thirty days--Brazil will have a period of repressive anti-leftism which could set off, in turn, a bloody and popular leftist revolution...
Splits & Subsidies. The U.S. and its allies came to Geneva disunited and unprepared, but there are also splits among the havenots. The former French African colonies, whose tropical products enjoy preferential treatment in the Common Market, are not about to endorse the Latin Americans' plea for similar treatment. Brazil proposed a radical program of subsidies and supports, but many realistic Latin American delegates are unwilling to press so hard. The Asians squabbled with the Africans, and the Iraqis with the Indians...