Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patrick Dean, British Ambassador to the United States, and Lincoln Gordon, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, will both speak at Harvard tonight. Sir Patrick will discuss "Britain and World Peace," at 8:30 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall sponsored by the Law School Forum. Gordon will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Dunster House Common Room on "American Foreign Policy in Latin America." Tickets for Sir Patrick's speech sell at the door or at the Coop...
...million aluminum works. The most hopeful investment field is in petrochemicals, where the government recently broke the long-held monopoly of state-owned Petrobras to attract more efficient private companies. Some ten corporations, including Jersey Standard, Gulf, and Phillips Petroleum, are now actively studying the investment possibilities. Brazil hopes that they will end up investing about $200 million each...
Gubernatorial elections took place in eleven of Brazil's twenty-two states October 3. They showed a trend to the left, but not to the radical left. They solved some of the government's problems, but they created others...
Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara, and Magalhaes Pinto, governor of Minas Gerais, have both been running hard to become President of Brazil in 1966 when Castello Branco is scheduled to step down...
...most of the states the elections hinged on local issues. But the rigid anti-inflationary policies of the Federal government have put a hard squeeze on Brazil's working population, whose wages are being held down while the cost of living continues to rise. So while the defeat of government candidates was not the blanket condemnation of the new regime that it might seem, it still indirectly indicated strong currents of disapproval of government policy. Thus in the three states where national issues were at stake: Minas Gerais, Guanabara, and Goias, the Federal government's candidates were defeated...