Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carved out of the wilderness 580 miles north of Rio, Brasilia was the creation of President Juscelino Kubitschek, who started building Brazil's new capital in 1957 as one sure way of opening up the country's interior. The "Capital of Hope," he called it. His successors felt no such attachment. Recoiling from the dust, disorder and frontier-town isolation, Janio Quadros called it "the cursed city," spent much of his time huddled in the palace projection room, guzzling Scotch and staring at Liz Taylor movies. Joao Goulart studiously avoided the unfinished capital for months on end. Construction...
...Today 120 of the Congress' 475 members live permanently in Brasilia instead of commuting from Rio and Sao Paulo. Next year the Brazilian Foreign Office will move to the capital, along with the 69 foreign delegations that now have their embassies in Rio. Other members of Brazil's official family should not be far behind. "I'm finding it increasingly difficult," says one U.S. embassy officer in Rio, "getting hold of politicians down here...
...Brazil's Congress is expected to pass the bill after considerable debate-and possibly some softening amendments. To no one's surprise, Carlos Lacerda, the mercurial Guanabara (Rio) Governor who has been attacking the government for just about everything (TIME, June 11), denounced the bill as "bad, narrow, hypocritical, juridically wrong, politically wrong, morally wrong-another error of the revolution." Equally unhappy is the tight little group of army officers who call themselves the linha dura (the hard line) and are opposed to any elections. One of their leaders, Colonel Osnelli Martinelli, 43, publicly denounced Castello Branco...
...minister under deposed Joāo Goulart, the demagogic President whose purposeful drift to the left sparked last year's revolution. Finally, the bill rules out anyone who "has engaged in acts of corruption, abuse of economic power, or who might compromise the good faith of the elections." Brazil's electoral courts will rule on any disputed candidacies. Those found ineligible will be kept off the ballot for four years, dating from the time of the original incident...
...Across Brazil, the general reaction among liberals and middle-roaders was somewhat milder than the critics had anticipated. Many politicians felt that the ineligibilities bill was a relatively small price to pay for prompt elections, particularly since only a few major-party candidates were likely to be affected. In fact, the reaction seemed to be exactly what Castello Branco had hoped for-a backing away from unsavory candidates who might run afoul of the bill...