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...Brazilian Communists made their choice five years ago, when Khrushchev launched his destalinization campaign. Veteran Party Boss Luis Carlos Prestes quickly climbed aboard, while a handful of other top leaders refused, were expelled, and openly joined forces with Peking. Early this year Prestes belatedly scheduled a national congress of the Brazilian Communist Party for an unprecedented open debate over Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin, but fear of exacerbating the already open wound forced its cancellation. Last week, after the 22nd Party Congress renewed the controversy, the pressure for public discussion was stronger than ever. Meanwhile, a second species...
Worst of all, inflation continues unchecked. Beans (No. 1 staple of Brazilian diets) are up 27%, rice 108%, bread 55%, meat 43%. Chasing the prices, bus drivers and bank workers struck for-and won-40% pay increases. A national maritime strike is scheduled to begin this week; government employees, metal, paper, coffee and sugar-processing-plant workers call for 45% to 60% pay boosts...
...then, the government gets only a fraction of them. Ducking taxes is an honored institution and a studied art. In some countries, less than half the qualified taxpayers even file a return. Many self-employed professional men keep no records of income; businessmen often keep two sets of books. Brazilian tax experts estimate that Rio de Janeiro's merchants alone cheated the government out of $1.9 million last year. Out in the country, big landholders drive off revenooers at gunpoint, never pay a cruzeiro. According to the taxmen in Buenos Aires last week, if all Latin Americans should start...
...Jones had made such a reputation as a champion of cutting costs and stretching resources that aeronautical experts recommended him to the Brazilian government, which was seeking a handful of U.S. advisers to help build up Brazil's then primitive civil and military air fleets. Says Jones: "When they began asking me how to get a better use of their resource in order to accomplish their total national objective, I knew that I wanted the job." With his new bride, Ruth-the daughter of onetime Screen Idol Conrad Nagel-Jones flew down to Rio. where, at 27, he helped...
...leadership of the great leader Mao Tse-tung, is an example that shows how a people can emancipate themselves from the yoke of their exploiters." But his friends say that amiable Jango Goulart is probably more demagogic than Marxist. Before the U.S. Congress in 1956 he said: "The Brazilian people are bound to the American people by very strong affinities in the principles of political ideas. And even today, in a world that is divided between totalitarian and democratic tendencies, of course we are in the camp of the democracies...