Word: costa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week. It would have been the first relaxation of the harsh measures imposed last December, when the constitution was scrapped, Congress closed and a sweeping purge launched against critics of the military. Last week, the prospect of even a limited return to civilian rule abruptly vanished. President Arthur da Costa e Silva, 66, suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed on his right side and unable to speak. Physicians said his prognosis was "fairly good," meaning that in time he may recover partially. But his hopes of announcing on Sept. 7, Brazil's Independence Day, a revised constitution...
Absolute Secrecy. Nowhere was ABC more energetic than in California, where it mixed its usual shrewd salesmanship with strong appeals to patriotism. Describing a typical approach, Dr. Jack Hagadorn, a Costa Mesa physician, said that ABC representatives displayed a right-wing tract denouncing the use of tax money to aid Communist countries. By depriving the Government of such money, they argued, an individual could decide how it should be spent...
...demonstrations marred his consultations with local governments. But the calm in Brazil was scarcely a sign either of pro-American sentiment or of democratic stability in the country. It simply showed that the Brazilians had had sufficient warning, and had prepared accordingly. To forestall possible trouble, President Arthur da Costa e Silva's tough military regime had warned Brazil's press not to print anything unfavorable about the Governor's visit. It had also placed some 2,500 of Brazil's most militant students and other dissidents under preventive arrest to make certain that there would...
Cutting Inflation. Rocky knew this, of course, as he was hustled off to the National Palace to be briefed on the Brazilian regime's achievements. Costa e Silva pointed proudly to his government's success in cutting inflation to a mere 22% annually (down from 90% in 1964, when the military ousted left-leaning President Joāo Goulart) and achieving an economic growth rate of 6%. At one point Costa e Silva grew so animated in his discourse that Rockefeller brought out a yellow pad and began taking notes...
Censorship of the press is hardly a rarity in Latin America, but Brazil's military-backed government seems more brazen about it than most. Instead of arresting, warning or otherwise punishing specific editors for printing articles that President Arthur da Costa e Silva finds offensive, the government is now flatly telling the nation's press how to handle stories in advance. Preparing for Nelson Rockefeller's scheduled visit to Brazil this week, the government ordered all editors to "collaborate in order to create a favorable climate for the stay among us of this representative of the Government...