Word: dicis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sucessdo," reads the entry in a little black book of censorship rules kept by the managing editor of a leading Brazilian daily. "Don't touch the succession." The term of President Emilio Médici, 67, still has another year to run, and the military junta that has ruled Brazil since 1964 has made clear its feeling that the process of picking Médici's successor should not be complicated by unwelcome discussion in the press...
Some observers, though, believe that the early rumors about Geisel clearly indicate that he is not going to be the candidate; in this theory, the stories are merely being used to stifle speculation while Médici makes up his mind. Nonetheless, the general's selection needs some public identity before his name can be put before Congress for its rubber-stamp approval next autumn, and the decision will likely come soon. "Everyone is going to start trying to line up behind spmeone," says a longtime observer, "and if there's not a clear indication of whom...
...messianic megalomania." Conceivably, they would not hesitate to lie in order to discredit the Brazilian government. A statement from Brazil's presidential palace insisted: "There is no torture in our prisons. Also, there are no political prisoners." Yet President Emílio Garrastazú Médici has specifically advised his underlings that torture is not to be tolerated...
...dici's action lends credence to the growing collection of torture stories. "They connected the electric-shock machine and had fun with me," said Sister Maurina Borges da Silveira, mother superior of an orphanage in southern Brazil, who was later flown to Mexico City in exchange for a Japanese diplomat kidnaped in March. Arrested on the charge of giving refuge to subversives, she was stripped naked and thrown into a cell with a man. "I had to remain locked up with him all night, bothered by his advances," she said. Chael Charles Schreier, a former medical student, was seized...