Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returned to the Dominican Republic 16 months ago, built his Dominican Revolutionary Party into a Betancourt-style voice of peasants and workers. At his best, Bosch seems to stand for sensible reform; at his worst, he indulges some of the erratic whims of a Jânio Quadros, Brazil's mercurial onetime President, who abdicated in 1961. Before the election, when a priest called Bosch a "Marxist-Leninist." he became so inflamed that he withdrew completely from the campaign-only to return to the race a few days later. Periodically, he has gone on verbal rampages, lashing...
...Gaulle, naturally, paid no attention. His sense of grandeur wounded by a Brazilian ultimatum to clear French lobster boats out of Brazilian waters, he dispatched a warship to put an end to such nonsense. Brazil responded by canceling sailors' shore leaves, ordering units of its own fleet to sea. There was an uneasy stir in foreign ministries in Paris and Rio de Janeiro; among Brazilians there was talk of breaking diplomatic relations, even of asking the U.S. to invoke the Monroe Doctrine. Headlined Rio's O Dia: WAR IS IMMINENT...
...entitled to catch them as fish; if they only crawl, they are Brazilian.* For, according to a 1958 Geneva convention, nations have a right to all the natural resources on the .continental shelf, including those living organisms that move in "constant physical contact" with the sea bed. Off Brazil, the continental shelf extends as much as 200 miles into the sea, and in those waters, argues Brazil, every lobster is as Brazilian as a coffee bean...
...tried to negotiate a joint fishing arrangement, the six-boat French fleet fished on, and Brazilian warships seized three French vessels. Two weeks ago, Brazilian President Joao Goulart gave France 48 hours to withdraw all its boats. Until then De Gaulle himself had remained above the squabble, perhaps because Brazil fitted somewhere in his grand design. He had invited Goulart to visit Paris some time this year, and an emissary had recently reported back after a swing through Latin America that France, in need of new markets, should woo Brazil...
...Brazil has, however, made a "brilliant recovery from the disasterous inflation of last December," Skidmore noted...