Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tito for snarling at U.S. nuclear testing during the Belgrade Conference while continuing to ask for U.S. aid. They are angry at India's Nehru for gobbling up Goa and for seeking Russian arms that his country could not afford without U.S. aid. They are mad at Brazil for expropriating a U.S. telephone subsidiary, and at Ghana's Nkrumah for his Marxist chatter...
...Yugoslavia and Poland (relenting only to allow surplus food to be sent) and blocked aid to any nation that seizes private U.S. property without prompt steps toward compensation. Last week the anger welled up in the House to produce a similar expropriation penalty, including a retroactive clause to punish Brazil-and thus put a damper on the Alliance for Progress. The House also rushed through a drastic amendment denying any special U.S. aid to the United Nations until all other nations had met all of their U.N. financial obligations-a ban that, in effect, would give any nation a veto...
...Brazil, a country almost as big as the U.S. (3,287,842 sq. mi.) and with a population expected to reach 200 million by 2000, has been spinning adrift for eleven months, ever since President Janio Quadros quit. Now, in place of a strong presidency, it has a two-headed parliamentary system that isn't working. Bloody riots in the streets, and the possibility of worse ones, last week brought bickering politicians into a semblance of truce...
After three weeks without a government, Brazil's fractious politicians finally got together on a Prime Minister and a Cabinet to join President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart at the helm of Latin America's biggest nation. They did so not because they had resolved their difficulties or agreed on the best man, but because they realized that Brazil had just about reached the edge of safety, and could not stand a further prolongation of the bitter, partisan bickering. The new government that took office in the outback capital of Brasilia represented an expedient truce between warring factions...
...expropriation last February of Rio Grande's $7,000,000 U.S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. subsidiary. Still, sensing the public unrest, the conservatives were willing to take Brochado da Rocha and did not object even when he called for a plebiscite to return Brazil to a strong presidential system...