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...command. By last weekend it was clear to Merino that no one was going to second his motion. In a voice choked with suita ble emotion, he surrendered to the government by long-distance telephone from his headquarters in the river port of Iquitos, then took asylum in the Brazilian consulate...
...PERCEPTIVE ANALYSES OF CURRENT PROBLEM AND GOALS TO BE PURSUED BY MY GOVERNMENT. I ATTACH FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE TO THE ROLE OF A FREE AND WELL INFORMED PRESS IN STRENGTHENING GOOD WILL AND UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN OUR COUNTRIES AND REGARD THE TIME STORY AS A RECOGNITION OF THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF BRAZILIAN PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD PICTURE. IT IS A VERY DEFINITE CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS BRINGING TO THE ATTENTION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE ASPIRATION OF MY GOVERNMENT AND ITS PURPOSE TO ACHIEVE WITHIN A DEMOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE A BETTER AND PEACEFUL FUTURE FOR THE BRAZILIAN PEOPLE...
Since the characters remain incomprehensible, the incidents in which they are involved and upon which they comment necessarily fail to have much coherence. Briefly, the plot deals with a pair of Brazilian promoters who hatch a scheme to build a dam in the hinterlands of the upper Amazon. In order to show their prospective customers that some work is actually progressing, they send out an American engineer and a young college student to make a preliminary survey. But the plane in which the two are travelling crashes, and the student, after a delirious conversation with a Bahian sea goddess, finally...
...share of the program and at the same time slow down the currency presses. In the past few years, the government custom of printing new money to meet budget deficits has kept inflation spiraling dizzily. Retail prices have almost doubled within three years, rising faster than wages. Among Brazilian workers, the resulting sag in real wages has brought on a rancorous discontent...
...program, the administration will also need development loans from the U.S. Government. Urgently needed is U.S. aid in refunding Brazil's existing foreign debts so as to lessen the yearly bite. Just at inauguration time, the U.S. Export-Import Bank announced equipment loans totaling $55 million to Brazilian government-run enterprises ; obvious in the timing was Washington's intent to show its good will toward the new administration...