Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throng of 3,000 at Rio's Galeão international airport. Then from the doorway of an Air France 707 came the man, still trim and agile despite his 63 years, his face split in a toothful smile, his right arm swinging in a familiar jaunty wave. Brazil's former President Juscelino Kubitschek-still admired by the people but loathed as a symbol of corruption by the present revolutionary government-had returned home after 16 months of self-imposed exile. Said he: "I have come back at zero hour...
Almost Unbearable. The moment that Kubitschek chose to return was precisely when the government was engaged in its first test of popularity since Brazil's military seized power early last year. The day before he arrived, 9,000,000 Brazilians in eleven of the country's 22 states had gone to the polls to vote for new Governors. In those elections, the government discovered that it had failed to win substantial popular support in spite-or because-of all its tough efforts to root out Communism and corruption. The big winner was the P.S.D. Party of Kubitschek...
...successors have not even given Brazil development. First, the erratic Jànio Quadros let Brazil's boom falter, then resigned in a fit of pique. Next came the leftist João Goulart, who only compounded the troubles until the military stepped in, grimly determined to sweep out all the old politicians...
...capacity of the people." Cried Bosch: "The next President must take a suit before the World Court in The Hague, asking $1 billion in damages from the U.S., so the interventions will never occur again." As for other members of the OAS peace force, Bosch demanded $100 million from Brazil, $20 million from Nicaragua and $1 million from Paraguay, "a poor country...
...generate 10 billion kw-hours of electricity annually and, hopefully, double Egypt's national income. In Iraq, where water is so scarce that the penalty for maliciously damaging an irrigation works is death, plans are being made to dam the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for power and irrigation. Brazil has just completed the $186 million Furnas Dam, South America's largest hydroelectric complex. In a project financed by the U.N. and 20 Western nations, four dams are being thrown across the Mekong River and tributaries in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam. As part of the Indus River...