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...early days of the revolution, thereby blocking the comeback of former Presidents Jânio Quadros and Juscelino Kubitschek, whose voting privileges were lifted for ten years. Also excluded is any person who served as a Cabinet minister under deposed Joāo Goulart, the demagogic President whose purposeful drift to the left sparked last year's revolution. Finally, the bill rules out anyone who "has engaged in acts of corruption, abuse of economic power, or who might compromise the good faith of the elections." Brazil's electoral courts will rule on any disputed candidacies. Those found ineligible...
...Chavez, a captain more likely to buckle than swash, Quinn provides an exuberant reprise of his Zorba the Greek characterization, though the parallel becomes a bit insistent when he starts nuzzling Tampico's (and Zorba's) rarest old jade, Lila Kedrova. Despite an occasional drift into the shallows, High Wind never loses sight of its goals. The script even touches upon the novel's suggestion that the captain harbors a disquieting yen for the spunky ten-year-old Emily (Deborah Baxter), who ultimately spells his destruction...
...evening, before the Communists begin shooting, the voices of men, women and children in Longthu village, just 1,000 yards away, drift clearly over the paddyfields to Tanlong. This is the toughest part of the day for Corporal Bui Van Tu, at 40 the oldest member of the platoon. Submachine-Gunner Tu's wife and two children live in Longthu, and half of his $34-a-month pay goes to keep them in rice. Tu has not had any leave since the three days off he got in 1963, sees his family only once every five weeks...
...America, glumly compared the area to "a pile of sugar being eaten away by a fire hose." Much of the erosion has since been halted. The Alianza has made considerable progress in developing economies, while Castro has been ex posed as a bungling adventurer. The Brazilian revolution ended the drift to Communism under a feckless leftist President; Chile averted the same fate in a head-to-head election in which the Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei won an overwhelming victory; Mexico continues its boom under the able Gustavo Diaz Ordaz; and long-turbulent Peru is enjoying a rare peace...
Hersey told the New York Times that "I have been deeply troubled by the drift toward reliance on military solutions in our foreign policy," but instead of following Lowell's lead he felt he could make "a stronger point "by reading from his Hiroshima...