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Bickering Prelude. It was a characteristically headlong performance by the 44-year-old politico, who took office seven months ago with the biggest popular majority in Brazilian history. It came after a week of feuding and fussing, touched off-not surprisingly-by the warmth of Quadros' welcome for Cuba's homeward-bound economic czar, Che Guevara. The Cuban did not arrive on schedule. Row on row of officials were left waiting at the Brasilia airport. When Che finally arrived without warning the next day, only a few mechanics were on hand. Quadros later put on his best blue...
...invited him to join a Quadros plot to grab more authority for himself by sending Brazil's holdover Congress into permanent recess. As Lacerda's charges began to stir a fuss, Quadros dramatically resigned. It was seven years and a day from the resignation and suicide of Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, another President who had incurred Lacerda's wrath...
...throughout the hemisphere to ostracize Castro's Communist dictatorship, Che set out to show that Cuba is still a member of the hemispheric family. He proved himself an able tactician, here offering a "helpful" resolution, there playing the misunderstood cousin, everywhere extending well-mannered coexistence. Nuzzling up to Brazilian Delegate Clemente Mariani, Che was well rewarded by a Mariani public statement gushing over "how encouraging it is to see how many of the other delegations' proposals have been approved by Cuba...
...with the tribes along a projected telegraph route through the jungle. Moved and angered by the Indians' tragic lot, Rondon established the Indian Protection Service, inspired his men to live up to the service's creed: "Die If You Must. But Never Kill." One of them, a Brazilian of German extraction named Harold Shult?, heroically applied this principle after a brave of the Xavante tribe, furious because Shultz had no gift for him, plunged a knife hilt-deep in Shultz's shoulder. Seriously wounded, Shultz made his way back to civilization, returned the following year...
This recent slaughter was yet another grisly incident in a mortal struggle against cruelty and civilization that has been going on in Brazil for more than 400 years. Like the North American Indian before him, the Brazilian Indian's enemy is the white man-and the white man's ways. Throughout the country's vast and still largely untamed jungle, the Indian stands dangerously close to extinction. When Portuguese Sea Captain Pedro Cabral discovered Brazil in 1,500, the lush tropical land teemed with 3,000,000 Indians of some 2,500 tribes. Today its tribal Indian...