Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the coffee port of Santos last week steamed the Dutch freighter Ruys. Aboard was ex-President Jānio Quadros, 45, whose petulant resignation seven months ago plunged Brazil into chaos, disillusion and disrepair. He came home in triumph. When the Ruys docked, Jānio, tanned, a bit flushed, and about 10 lbs. heavier than when he sailed away last August, walked into a swarm of 10,000 almost fanatic fans...
...return to fight at whatever the cost for the republic about which we dream." said Jānio. "To arrive at the destiny that we desire and the Brazil that we want. There is only one order: we must stay united. And woe to those who have wanted to know, and who do not belong to the people, the reasons for my renouncing the presidency. The reasons for my renouncement will be known in the public square.'' After his emotional but hardly enlightening speech, Quadros fell silent. In his purposely enigmatic way, he was testing the political air, and he probably...
...seven men who cannot be counted on to listen to each other now control hemispheric economic policy. The result is that Dean Rusk travels to Punta del Este to damage the Alliance by splitting Right and Left further apart in Argentina; the President himself has to defend aid to Brazil for lack of other support; and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American affairs, as a former member of the White House staff, is apparently not responsible to his chief...
...possibility that the United States might fail to reach young people was one of several "nightmares" that Lerner said President Kennedy must have. Others are the possible failure of the "united states of Europe," a reconciliation of Sino-Soviet views, a continuation of troubles with Cuba, problems in Brazil, the fall of the "neutral" Laos regime, and failure to win the uncommitted nations...
...cost, so staggering in the early days, has been pared to the point where a bang can be bought for $500 million. Such advanced nations as Italy, Sweden, West Germany and Japan could obviously do it. So, too, say U.S. scientists, could Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, India, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico...