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...Commander Syseno Sarmento, so far controls the military in Brazil-and is unhappy with what it considers a more lenient posture by Costa e Silva. The old marshal therefore declared himself to be "a companion in arms" who "not even for one day forgets his loved days in the Brazilian army. The tranquillity and the order of this country are our responsibility...
...Depending on the model, it will sell for $4,250 to $4.800-about twice as much as a similar car made in the U.S., where taxes are lower. Ford's trade-up entry is the compact Corcel ($3,436). The highest-priced car at the show is the Brazilian Ford Galaxie LTD; at $9,546, it is the country's newest status symbol. Chrysler, which along with the other three companies accounts for 92% of all auto production, is waiting until 1970 to present a Brazilian Dodge Dart. This year the company did not offer new models...
When he wrote those words and set them to music last month, Brazilian Composer Geraldo Vandré had more than a song in his heart. He comes from the nation's impoverished Northeast, and he gave voice in Caminhando (Walking) to the growing impatience of millions of Brazilians with the way the military is running-or not running-the country. Overnight Caminhando became a hit. Taunting the regime, Brazilians sang it in the streets, hummed it in the favelas, and pushed it for an international prize...
...government's seeming inability to curb the protesters, rightist vigilante groups have taken on the task. Roman Catholic laymen have formed a "society for the defense of tradition, family and property" and collected 1.5 million signatures on a petition to Pope Paul warning against leftist infiltration among Brazilian priests. One group, calling itself the "Communist-Hunting Command" has fanned across the nation. The vigilantes have invaded even the theater, most of whose producers and actors sympathize with the left. In the midst of one performance of the theater-of-violence satire Roda Viva, a whistle blew and men armed...
Basically, it is music for the man who likes the plays of Samuel Beckett, the paintings of Marcel Duchamp and the films of Antonioni. It begins in a mood of tension: excerpts from Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Brazilian mythology are read against a highly dissonant background. In the haunting second part, the name Martin Luther King is recited and sung over and over again, the syllables spilled out here, squeezed there, so that the name is uttered in an endless variety of permutations. In the impassioned third section, the vocalists speak and sing excerpts from Beckett...