Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker urgently advised Latin Americans to honor their pledge for a multination military force to help the U.S. keep order. And indeed, the first Latin Americans started arriving: 250 Honduran infantrymen, 20 Costa Rican policemen. Others were on their way from Nicaragua, probably from Brazil...
...Baby." There was obviously something visceral about Elvis and his music. Because soon there were riots in Hartford, Atlanta, and San Jose, Calif. Theaters were demolished in London and São Paulo, Brazil. Sociologists began to view the phenomenon with alarm. Studies showing that Elvis fans had a below-C average were circulated. A Senate subcommittee started to investigate the link between rock 'n' roll and juvenile delinquency. Pablo Casals condemned rock 'n' roll as "poison put to sound," Frank Sinatra called it a "rancid-smelling aphrodisiac," and Samuel Cardinal Stritch labeled it "tribal rhythms...
...years of uninterrupted inflation, Brazil's businessmen have slipped into many bad habits. They raise next week's capital by increasing this week's prices. They buy at any cost and sell at any cost, trusting the ever-higher prices of inflation to see them through their carelessness and inefficiency. Last year prices skyrocketed so much (85%) that sales began to slacken and money grew scarce. Result: Brazil's businessmen have had to live with a severe shortage of capital. Taking advantage of this situation, Brazil's revolutionary government is trying to use one problem...
...through the interior without notable success. Colombia's even more expert army no sooner cleaned out the country's bandits than a pair of Castro-style guerrilla bands cropped up in the same Andean hills. There have been reports of Communist guerrillas in Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Argentina, Brazil?and of course the Dominican Republic, for which Castro has a special affinity. Way back in September 1947 Fidel himself, then a student, was involved in an unsuccessful attempt to launch a 1,100-man invasion force from Cuba...
...long-range strategic reason (for those who deny the importance of morality in politics) is more compelling. The U.S. can intervene two or three times in the small republics and succeed. But the real stake is the allegiance of the giants of Latin America--Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile. Intervention is simply not worth the animosity that accrues to the U.S. in the great republics, where no sane President would dare try the same thing...