Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discreetly silent six-month cruise around the world, enigmatic ex-President Janio Quadros this week returns to Brazil, and to an Ash Wednesday welcome that well in advance was being built to heroic proportions. Some 6,000 workers from Rio de Janeiro were bound for the port of Santos to greet his ship. Bus caravans from all over Brazil are scheduled to take thousands more to cheer the prodigal's return...
Power-Stripped President. Homecoming as a hero contrasts sharply with Quadros' bewildering and unheroic abdication last August. In the crisis that followed. Brazil's military forced a switch from a presidential to a parliamentary system, designed to block rabble-rousing Veep João ("Jango") Goulart from gaining full executive power as President. But the result has been aimless drift and a leadership vacuum, under the Tweedledum-Tweedledee administration of power-stripped President Goulart and a dreamy Prime Minister named Tancredo Neves. As Quadros neared home, the danger of a Quadros power grab finally stirred Quadros' predecessor...
Kubitschek made plain his immediate objective: a plebiscite to restore the presidential system. He obviously hopes to succeed Goulart in the restrengthened presidency in 1966. In a television interview, Kubitschek explained his reasons: "Brazil can no longer remain without a command. The President gives the orders 33% of the time, the Prime Minister 33%, and the Cabinet Ministers 33%. Either we carry out the plebiscite or we will march toward a new crisis.'' In the U.S. last week for a month-long lecture tour. Kubitschek warned: ''This split of power might push the country into revolution...
Rising Demagogues. Anarchy is every where evident. Congressmen avoid the isolated new capital of Brasilia (built by free-spending Kubitschek to encourage development of Brazil's interior). Not a single major law has been passed since before Christmas-even though important land-and tax-reform bills are pending. Economists gloomily predict that inflation will raise the cost of living 60% this year...
...American taxpayers ought not to mistrust his country's use of Alliance funds. Since Presidents do not "dip into public funds" and a critical free press is always active, the U.S. has no cause for worry about Brazilian expenditure of light capital abroad. (Kubitschek did not comment on Brazil's current inflation...