Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wayne D. Brazil, a third-year graduate student and chairman of the meeting, said that the only conclusion drawn from the three hour long debate was that "some form of continued evaluation is necessary." He would not comment on the support for specific proposals...
...meeting last night concluded that the next step will be a discussion meeting to which all the history department faculty will be invited. No decisions on specific proposals will be made until after that meeting, sometime next week, Brazil said...
Without Miracles. That ridiculous act reflects the tension that grips Brazil these days. A vast majority of Brazilians applauded the overthrow of Leftist João Goulart in 1964, and the cleanup started by the new military-backed regime of General Humberto Castello Branco was obviously necessary. When War Minister Arthur Costa e Silva was elected President by Congress in 1966, Brazilians listened to his promise to "humanize" the bureaucracy, promote a "Year of Education" and declare war on inflation. He did manage to slash the annual rate of inflation from 40% to 25%. The nation's gross national...
...Costa e Silva held down the cost of living at great cost to himself. "We went through 1967 without any miracles," the President says. "I prefer a sure and measured success." Maybe some miracles are needed. Brazil should be taking off economically; it is barely holding its own. Education is a shambles: half of the population remains illiterate, and there is no room at the university for two of every three students who pass the entrance exam. Workers who earn only $40 a month must spend a fourth of that on bus fares to get to their jobs...
...Paulo, the National Students Union (UNE), outlawed by the military government, was playing cops-and-mouse with security police. No one had forgotten last summer's mass demonstrations (TIME, July 5). From all over Brazil, 739 student leaders descended on a remote farm in the heart of the artichoke country 40 miles southwest of São Paulo. As Police Commissioner Otávio Camargo later described the scene, "Boys and girls were heaped up in the farmhouse, sleeping in canvas beds or on the floor, and since there wasn't enough room in the house, many took...