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...year. By August of this summer, the Brazil project had already set a record for the highest drop-out rate in a single Peace Corps program. The project suffered a severe case of the ills that beset the Peace Corps around the world during its first two years. The Brazilian example proved how easily the Great Idea could turn into a miserable experience...
...Janeiro for their "duty stations" in a long, arid river basin 500 miles away, the volunteers were advised to look up the local officials of the Commissao do Vale do Sao Francisco (CVSF). The CVSF, a federal agency charged with developing the river basin, was supposed to supply Brazilian technician counterparts to the volunteers in each station...
...tighter, and Brazil was rapidly running out of peaceful solutions. A tired-eyed Goulart, weary from worry and no sleep, was maneuvering feverishly and unpredictably-not at all like the old pro of a few months ago. Throughout the country there was an air of desperation. History, as one Brazilian newspaper said, was being written by the minute...
Coming at a time when a Brazilian mission was in Washington seeking a crucial credit extension, Lacerda's statement was the final straw so far as Goulart was concerned. His Justice Minister declared the two state governors "in a true state of belligerence with the federal government," and the President went to Congress. If the Congressmen declare a state of siege, Goulart will assume power to censor the press, ban political meetings, search homes and make arrests without warrants, restrict travel, banish anyone to "any healthful populated area" in Brazil, and seize all state militias...
...Brazilians and the French have vied with gunboats over Brittany lobster boats working in traditional Brazilian fishing waters. Icelandic gunboats chased British trawlers from Iceland's cod grounds, and the Danes are shooing them away from the Faeroe Islands. Norway is chasing Swedish fishermen from grounds that the Swedes have fished for hundreds of years. Japanese boats are barred from South Korea, badgered by the Russians in the North Pacific. Irish corvettes have scattered Dutchmen and Belgians from Ireland's herring grounds, and Canada last year ordered a Russian fleet out of the Bay of Fundy. Even...