Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American committee which will administer the Alliance because he mistrusted Mann's views on social reform. But that the Alliance should be abandoned with so little ceremony was not foreseen. Mann's statement in effect gives a green light to the military in Latin America. With rightist elements in Brazil and eleswhere clamoring for military take-over in their countries, it will be suprising if the new U.S. position does not lead to coups in several countries...
Sweden was also ready to send troops but demanded that at least one other neutral, non-NATO nation join the operation as well. Finland would fill the bill, but could not immediately because President Urho Kekkonen was out of the country. Brazil, torn by domestic unrest and a faltering economy, could not spare even a battalion. That left Austria and Ireland. But Austria, trapped by a Cabinet crisis, was without a government, and Ireland was willing to play follower, not leader...
...seven-year program, Australia is doubling its electrical output, partly to serve such expanding aluminum giants as Alcoa, Alcan, Kaiser and Pechiney. Iran has completed a new water and power project that is hailed as a Middle East TV A and will soon include an $800 million petrochemical complex. Brazil desperately needs more power; in the industrial city of Sao Paulo, which boasts steel mills, auto plants and TV antennas on slum roofs, 30% more power is needed than is produced...
Following the Mexican visit there will be a grand De Gaulle tour next fall of Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil...
...ready to raise our flags," wrote Lima's El Comercio. And in Rio, there were hints that Brazil, too, might recognize Red China. Even Fidel Castro was impressed by El Macho. In a TV interview he said that he "sympathizes" with many things in De Gaulle's policy, also confided that he is studying De Gaulle's memoirs...