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Joao Goulart, deposed president of Brazil, hated the United States and countries that fawningly follow its policies. He refused to support anti-Castro sanctions. He was an anti-American, pro-Brazilian radical social reformer who admired Communist China but was too great a nationalist to be Communist himself...
...mara is known from Rome to Rio as the most outspoken figure in the Brazilian church. At a recent Vatican Council session, he seriously suggested that his fellow bishops toss their jeweled episcopal rings, mitres and other symbols of office away. Just before returning to Brazil, Câmara candidly told Pope Paul that he should get rid of the sedia gestatoria (portable papal throne) and the flabella, the white ostrich feather fans carried beside it. Camara identifies with new-wave Catholic leaders, says: "The church must join the battle for development and social justice so that later people will...
...post. The Northeast is in a state of prerevolution." Brazil's leading liberal Catholic intellectual, Alceu Amoroso Lima finds Helder Câmara to be "the right man for the right place. He is earmarked to become a cardinal. He can no longer be considered a purely Brazilian church personality...
Next year, visiting professors from Latin America will include Villa Rogas, a Mexican expert on Mayan Indians, and Orlando Fars Borda, a Colombian sociologist, in the fall, and Rodriguez Monegal, a Brazilian expert on comparative literature, in the spring...
Companies must grant credit to attract the free-wheeling Brazilian shopper, but extending credit has become costly for business. Customers understandably prefer to put off paying, because their wages are rising faster than prices; thus, as each inflationary month passes, the bills in effect become smaller. Among the slowest payers: the Brazilian government, which seldom honors its bills promptly; last week the U.S. and five other nations agreed to ease the burden of Brazil's $3 billion debt by stretching out payment schedules. Businessmen are finding it difficult even to keep on hand enough cash to carry on. Willys...