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...only to see most of it disappear down the Amazon. The prospects became so disheartening that Washington aid to the wobbly, leftist regime of João Goulart gradually dwindled to a trickle. Last week, after eight months spent in careful observation of the revolutionary government of President Humberto Castello Branco, the U.S. announced that it is ready to try again with $453 million, a package that makes Brazil the greatest U.S. economic-aid beneficiary of any nation except Pakistan and India. With the addition of expected funds from international agencies and private capital, Castello Branco will be getting...
Dancing on Coals. The town of Castello, perched high in the rugged, inhospitable Epirus mountains, has been split by the war. The Royalists still control the village; the Reds have taken to the hills. Every day the two forces meet in bloody, hand-to-hand combat, using rifles, knives, teeth and fingernails. It is because they have lived so close to one another that they fight so fiercely. No one excels Kazantzakis in portraying this love-hate ambivalence. In one memorable vignette, Kazantzakis tells how a group of Royalists and Reds shoot it out one winter...
Only one man in Castello refuses to take sides. Seventy-year-old Father Yánaros is the last of a distinguished line of Kazantzakis heroes-sweaty, seedy, tortured saints, torn between faith and doubt, hope and despair, a yearning for solitude and a compulsion to aid their fellow men. Yánaros travels through life as if on a tightrope, or as he puts it, dancing barefoot on hot coals: "Every saint is a firewalker. And so is every honest man in this hell we call life...
Outmanned & Outgunned. Last week, invoking a constitutional provision that permits intervention in a state when "national integrity" is threatened, Castello Branco let the military have its way. In the space of two days, 6,000 federal troops poured into the state capital of Goiania. The troops took over the telephone and telegraph systems, power companies and a water-treatment plant, formed up around the palace. Outmanned and outgunned, Borges caved in and turned the government over to the military. The way the brass told it, they got Borges just in time...
Such harsh tactics have made enemies for the new government among those who fear that the revolution will descend into dictatorship. Yet thoughtful Brazilians also recognize Castello Branco as a man who, alone among recent Brazilian presidents, is doing what he set out to do. Of 147 bills sent to Congress since the March revolution, 102 have been approved, covering everything from agrarian reform to low-cost housing credit. Foreign capital is flowing back into Brazil for the first time in three years. And some cherished Brazilian ideas are going down the drain-that uncontrolled inflation is inevitable, that...