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Having already poured $1.9 billion worth of aid into Brazil since World War II, the U.S. bet another $398.5 million last week that President João Goulart will be able to bring order out of economic chaos in Latin America's biggest nation. The package that Brazilian Finance Minister Francisco San Tiago Dantas signed at the White House was no simple, here-we-go-again-boys handout. It was, instead, one of the most carefully hedged bets in the history of U.S. foreign...
...Goulart has been exchanging letters with President Kennedy, has had a visit from Brother Bobby, and has been successfully negotiating with the U.S. for more financial aid. Without warning, the Solidarity Congress organizers found themselves trapped, tricked, merry-go-rounded, bureaucratized, buck-passed, blind-alleyed and discriminated against by Brazilian officialdom from Goulart on down...
Obvious agents and big-name Communists are relatively easy to track. Francisco Juliao, leader of Brazil's troublemaking Peasant Leagues, was in Cuba last month; so was Brazilian Communist Boss Luis Carlos Prestes. When he was ar rested last October, Venezuelan Commu nist Fabricio Ojeda had been logged into Cuba 13 times, so often that he was nicknamed "Lieutenant Hilton." for the suite he occupied in Havana's expropriated Hilton hotel...
...divided between left and right, and fairly bursting with brilliant potential. He graduated from the . National Law Faculty of the University "of Brazil at 20, went on to become one of the most successful corporation lawyers in the country. But in 1958 he turned left, joined Goulart's Brazilian Labor Party, and got himself elected a federal deputy from Minas Gerais state. In 1961, when Goulart succeeded the erratic Jânio Quadros as President, Dantas was the man named to be Brazil's Foreign Minister...
...According to crustacean-wise Brazilian naturalists, some lobsters swim, some...