Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until last year did Congress finally stand up to the President; in a rare show of unity, it refused to vote Castello Branco sweeping new powers-including the right to close down Congress. So Castello Branco simply put the rules into effect by decree, and for good measure dissolved Brazil's 13 political parties; in their place, he created a majority government party called ARENA and a mild opposition catchall called M.D.B. Early this month, in an indirect election by Congress, ARENA'S presidential candidate-ex-War Minister, Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva, 64-swept easily...
...Peruvian link of Belaúnde's proposed marginal road, a 4,300-mile highway that will open up thousands of acres of isolated Andes back country, and follow the mountains from Venezuela down through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, linking up with highway systems in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil...
Robertson opened the third quarter with a bullet from the left that just missed the far side of the goal; then after six and a half minutes had gone by the Brazil-trained sophomore ended the frustration...
Entomologist Ernest Bay has pinned his hopes on the little Cynolebias bellottii, or Argentine pearlfish. Almost alone it keeps large areas of Argentina and Brazil relatively free of mosquitoes. Immediately after hatching in the waters of low-lying flood plains the tiny fish begins eating mosquito larvae. By the time it reaches its mature length of 1½ in. to 3 in. a few weeks later, it is able to consume about 50 larvae...
Promise of Peace. He has performed almost as if he were riding a bandwagon instead of a tank. Since July, when the election "campaign" officially began, Costa e Silva has barnstormed virtually all of Brazil's 22 states, made scores of speeches, shaken tens of thousands of hands. He has promised his audiences almost everything: a balanced budget, control of inflation, more imports, more exports, better transport and communications, more electric power, better education, health and housing. His aim, he proclaims, is to promote "an authentic democracy, in which the rich are richer and the poor are less poor...