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...DEMANDS CTI ON CL IN GBA, announced the headlines in Rio news papers. Too much bottled cheer in the composing room? Not at all. As savvy Brazilians saw at a glance, it was the perfectly normal way of saying that President Joao Goulart's Brazilian Labor Party demanded a parliamentary investigation into the actions of Governor Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara state. In their casual conversations, Brazilians can be just as cryptic, leaving the befuddled stranger convinced that, letter for letter, Brazil is the world's most overalphabetized nation...
...memory drums typed out the names of five vessels within 100 miles of the Lakonia, and urgent messages were flashed to them to proceed to the stricken liner. The five were the Argentine passenger liner Salfa, the Belgian merchant ship Charlesville, the British freighters Montcalm and Stratheden, and the Brazilian freighter Rio Grande. Some were already on the way, having picked up the S O S on their own radios. The R.A.F. at Gibraltar hurriedly organized a flight of rescue planes...
Last week, rising to make his maiden speech in the Brazilian Senate, Senator Arnon de Mello, 52, looked uneasily toward the back of the chamber. "I will speak today," he began, "with my eyes turned to Senator Silvestre Péricles de Góes Monteiro, who . . . who . . . who has threatened to kill me today." "Swine," roared Góes Monteiro, 67, charging down the aisle. Mello drew his Smith & Wesson .38, ducked behind a seat-and fired twice. An old hand at political gunplay, Góes Monteiro whipped out his own .38, but another Senator jumped him before...
When the second annual meeting to review the Alliance for Progress convened in Sao Paulo last week, Brazilian President Joao Goulart sharply criticized United States efforts to aid Latin America. The Alliance is ineffective, he argued, because it is improperly managed; in other words, the United States Agency for International Development mishandles the billion dollars a year that the Alliance funnels into Latin America. He called for the establishment of an inter-American fund bank to replace the Alliance. This bank would be financed largely by the United States, but its direction would be entirely Latin. "Today, and each...
Sadly, the Brazilian's comments typify much current Latin thought. His recommendation that the administration of American funds be totally removed from American hands dramatizes the basic misunderstanding of United States endeavors in South America. The United States intends to spend $20 billion on the Alliance over a ten year period not altruistically, but to encourage the development of a modern industrial society. The charter of the Alliance states specifically that unless development takes place along well-defined democratic lines, no United States funds will be forth-coming. Cuba has been excluded from the Alliance since its inception...