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...world's largest Roman Catholic nation. One of the original plotters of the coup, he served four years as head of Petrobras, the state-owned oil monopoly. The new chief of state is almost a carbon copy of the taciturn outgoing President, Emilio Garrastaz Médici, and few changes seem in prospect. In fact, given the self-effacing, collective character of the Brazilian oligarchy, who wears the presidential mantle at any particular time is of little importance...
...Brazilian constitution stipulates that a President cannot succeed himself. General Emilio Médici, the current President, therefore announced last week that the ruling military junta had been searching for a man of "moral and intellectual depth . . . unquestionable knowledge . . . experience," a man who could provide the nation with "progress, well-being and happiness." This paragon, to no one's surprise, turned out to be another military man, ex-General Ernesto Geisel, 65, president of the state-owned petroleum monopoly, Petrobrás. Geisel must be approved by the electoral college before he is inaugurated for a five-year term...
...when other generals demanded its dissolution; the following year he was instrumental in pushing through a constitutional amendment that formally retained the Congress (though it was stripped of power). "Geisel has a military appearance but a civilian mind," says an editor in Sāo Paulo. "With Médici it was the other way around. Geisel is smarter and he seems to belong to no one. He has a chance...
...these, nevertheless, are thin straws. While Geisel can be counted on to keep Brazil's economy booming, it remains to be seen whether he will ease the junta's restrictions on Congress, political parties and the press. Brazilians can remember Médici's 1969 inaugural promise to see "democracy definitely installed in our country." That promise was never kept...
Punctilious Protocol. Rogers had an even more awkward time in Rio de Janeiro. There he waited for three days before flying to the capital of Brasilia for an official welcome. The reason: his counterpart, Foreign Minister Mário Gibson Barbosa, along with President Emílio Médici and the rest of Brazil's top officialdom, was away on a visit to Portugal. Protocol dictated that Rogers could not see anyone-or leave Rio -until Barbosa returned. He could easily have arranged either to stay at home or to fly back...