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...hold the viscera of the 13 alleged victims, and the jars ended so badly mixed up no one was sure which was which. But he kept Marie Besnard in jail for five years in "preventive detention.'' The 28-year-old juge d'instruction investigating young Brazilian playboy Jonsine da Silva Ramos' wife's death announced to the press: "I believe him guilty. It's up to him to prove his innocence...
Died. João Alberto Lins de Barros, 57, Brazilian Diplomatic Minister and foreign-trade expert, longtime right-hand man of the late President Getúlio Vargas ; of can cer; in Rio de Janeiro. Joao Alberto played an important role in the 1930 revolution that brought Vargas to power. During the 1 5-year dictatorship that fol lowed, he was chiefly responsible, as federal interventor of São Paulo and chief of police of Rio de Janeiro, for Vargas' survival in the face of repeated internal
...Brazilian musician named Heitor Villa-Lobos sold some rare books left him by his father and, jingling his spending money, took off for the jungle. For the next few years he inhaled a lot of folk music, warmed it in his own prodigally creative imagination and exhaled luxuriant clouds of concert music. Some of his work was jungly, some languid as a slow samba. Villa-Lobos became famed as one of the century's most brilliant composers. Last week, a half century after his first jungle excursion but still a restless wanderer, Composer Villa-Lobos turned up as guest...
With the outraged public on the government's side. Cafe Filho declared the doctors' strike illegal, banned picketing, sent military doctors to work in civilian hospitals, fired the 210 department heads among the strikers. Eight hospital-picketing doctors, including the president of the Brazilian Medical Association, were jailed. In a radio speech. Cafe Filho called upon the strikers to "put an end to this sad. spectacle before the world...
...doctors would do their moral duty and go back to work promptly, he would try to find a way to ease their salary pinch, and 2) if they did not go back promptly, he would begin drafting them into the army. (Most young or middle-aged Brazilian doctors are rated as military reservists.) That worked. At their strike headquarters in the dance hall of Rio's High Life carnival club, the doctors voted to end the strike. But the government stuck to its decision to fire the 210. Explained Labor Minister Alencastro Guimaraes: "Department heads with years of professional...