Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Brazil's army overthrew Leftist João Goulart in 1964, the generals declared war on Communism, corruption and - it would almost seem - the Roman Catholic Church. Fearful that Brazil's liberal, reform-minded church was spreading agitation in the depressed Northeast, the generals hauled in priests and bishops alike for questioning, forced several into "voluntary" exile, and cracked down on such "subversive" church organizations as labor syndicates and classes to teach adults to read...
...dismally low salaries, most Latin American faculties consist of part-time teachers whose main interest is in their outside jobs in law, medicine or politics. At San Marcos, only 57 of 1,344 professors teach fulltime, have little opportunity or incentive to do scholarly research. In inflation-ridden Brazil, where professors seldom make more than $200 a month, university teachers moonlight on two or three different jobs to make ends meet. Understandably, a Buenos Aires student complains: "It is very difficult to study with professors who very often have less knowledge than those being educated...
...ailing Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). A LAFTA ministerial meeting is scheduled for Montevideo next December, and the five nations gathered in Bogotá-all small and relatively undiversified-could well be trying to organize a pressure group to counteract the larger individual power of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. Predictably, the five denied any such intention. "We are not trying to create an economic bloc," Frei said. "We are only trying to start something which will spread through Latin America...
Some of the things visitors like-or dislike-surprise their hosts. Being able to take a grocery bag of food up to a hotel room is an unaccustomed freedom, and so is walking on park lawns. A general from inflation-plagued Brazil was pleased that "during the five weeks I was in New York the prices stayed the same." The attention given a family traveling with children is a boon. "You could take 50 restaurants in London," says one Englishman, "and not find half a dozen with high chairs." Almost to a man, visitors are irked by the difficulty...
...goes against Brazil in the Interzone semifinals this fall. By then there will be another rising star on the squad: Arthur Ashe, 23, ranked No. 2, and a Forest Hills semifinalist last year, who has just finished a tour in the Army. "We've got a long way to go," says George MacCall, the U.S. nonplaying captain. "But for once we've got a lot of horses...