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...Goulart in March 1964, Brazil has been riven by an ugly power squabble that could drastically affect the future of Brazilian democracy. Taking advantage of the coup that landed a soldier, General Humberto Castello Branco, in the presidential palace, a hardline, right-wing military faction known as the linha dura has been busily purging state and local governments of every official whom they suspect of Communist sympathies or simple malfeasance-in many cases without benefit of judicial procedure. Last week the hard-liners were dealt a hard blow. It came from none other than ex-General Castello Branco, whose regime...
...linha dura invited its comeuppance. One of its first targets after the revolution was Leftist Miguel Arraes, popular onetime (1959-62) mayor of Recife, who was governor of Pernambuco State at the time of the revolution. Though he had vigorously built schools and roads, cut unemployment and raised literacy, Arraes had the support of Communists and installed several in key government posts. The military accused him of subversion and tossed him into jail. After a few months Arraes became a sort of Brazilian Dreyfus; letters of protest poured in from hundreds of admirers, including Novelists Graham Greene and Fran...
...that point, Castello Branco flew into Rio from Brasilia for a hastily summoned conference with top army brass and ordered Arraes released. And that was that. After 386 days in jail, Arraes was freed. To be sure the message was not lost on the linha dura, Castello Branco also fired off orders to all military-inquiry boards to wrap up their business as soon as possible...
...many out-of-the-way towns, military investigations and repression go on, and some 1,500 political prisoners still languish in Brazilian jails. Yet sudden, unexplained arrests are tapering off; the linha dura is quite visibly knuckling under to Castello Branco. "Sure I'm mad as hell," snapped one frustrated colonel last week. "But the Old Man is right. At least Arraes will think twice now before he tries anything else." And so, it seemed clear, would the linha dura...
...jugular vein. The excess brain fluid is thus dripped into the bloodstream, where the body readily disposes of it. Another Silastic preparation, which looks like a sheet of waxed paper, serves to correct a different type of brain problem: when part of the brain's parchmentlike covering, the dura mater, is damaged or destroyed, the brain tissues and fluids are kept from bulging or leaking out by a Silastic sheet backed with Dacron...