Word: dicis
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Dates: during 1969-1969
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...Economic austerity worked wonders, but one politically repressive move followed another until Costa e Silva dissolved Congress and instituted rule by decree. Last August he suffered a paralytic stroke and was replaced by a military junta, which two months ago named General Emílio Garrastazú Médici as President...
...dici succeeds Arthur da Costa e Silva, an ex-army marshal who had ruled since 1967 but was partially paralyzed by a stroke last August. A military triumvirate took over the government, imperiously brushing aside the civilian Vice President, who should have succeeded Costa e Silva under the constitution. Early this month the brass reached into the ranks of four-star generals to choose Médici, the taciturn commander of Brazil's Third Army, as the new "candidate...
Cynical Jeers. Médici was almost unknown outside the army. Three weeks ago, when he went on television before 90 million countrymen with the pro forma promise to see "democracy definitely installed in our country," Brazilians responded with cynical jeers. "In the U.S.," went one gibe, "there are general elections. In Brazil, the generals elect...
General Médici is known as "a man of few smiles and friends." He won some key friends in 1964, when he gave major support to the coup that established Brazil's military rule. Raised in Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil's rugged cattle country, the new President is a compromise choice acceptable to both moderate officers and the linha dura -hardliners who would crack down even harder on dissent. Like most of his comrades-in-arms, he is convinced that only the military knows what is best for Brazil and its 90 million people. "There...
...question is whether the hardliners will find Médici too moderate. Already, Three-Star General Affonso Albuquerque Lima, a disappointed presidential aspirant, has warned Medici's men that "more audacious" officers are waiting in the wings. Clearly, Médici's problem will be to keep discontent from boiling over in the streets-and in the barracks as well...