Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past 20 years, Carlos Lacerda has been one of the leading advocates of democratic government in Brazil. First as a journalist, later as publisher of his own newspaper, "Tribuna Da lmprensa" and finally as a state governor, Lacerda has continually fought to increase popular participation in government...
...leading member of the Uniao Demoratica National Party, now banned by the military government in Brazil, Lacerda was elected governor of the State of Guanabara from 1960 to 1965. During his term as a "reform" Governor he built over 200 schools to assure a primary education to every child in the state, and launched three massive urban renewal projects to clear Rio deJaneiro's well known "favella" shanty towns...
...been tightened, and the constant wage increases have been slowed. Moreover, his persuasive economics minister, Roberto Campos, has beat bushes abroad convincing hesitant investors that now is the time to get in. Says National Economic Development Bank Director Jayme Magrassi de Sa: "International businessmen have always looked on Brazil as an excellent long-term prospect. Now there is a favorable political climate...
...comes at a time when many predict that the country is headed for a recession. The tightness of credit has dried up cash, and consumers have little to spend. Christmas shopping is the slowest in memory. Worse still is the spreading fear that all the foreign money means that Brazil is losing its national identity. American advisers are so much in evidence at the economic ministry that Brazilians bitterly joke that more English than Portuguese is spoken there. Some nationalists consider Roberto Campos so pro-U.S. that they commonly Americanize his name to Bobby Fields...
...early reels, the other teams concentrate ruthlessly on eliminating Brazil, the defending champion, and the only way to do that is to eliminate Pele (pronounced Pehleh), the Babe Ruth of soccer, a man who dribbles as daintily as a woman knits and then with a kick that could fell a rhino drives the ball into the net so fast the eye cannot follow it. Portugal finally does the dirty deed with a ferocious mousetrap: the man in front of Pele kicks his knee at the same instant the man behind him kicks his ankle. He goes down like a speared...