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Impressed by the success of student protests elsewhere, Rio's students began their own demonstrations and disorders two months ago. Their discontent has focused on Education Minister Tarso Dutra, a weak administrator whom Costa refuses to replace under pressure. Two weeks ago, students shouting "Down with Dictatorship" marched on Dutra's Le Corbusier-designed administration building to "confront" him. Before they got there, two platoons of police cut them off with tear gas and an antiriot hose truck. The students retreated from street corner to street cor ner, waving clubs disguised in rolled-up newspapers and regrouping each...
...appreciation dinner was sponsored by the Amvets Women's Auxiliary, Paul A. Dutra Post No. 71 of East Cambridge. Many of the people in East Cambridge have long regarded Vellucci as "Our Councillor"-the theme of the banquet...
President Eurico Caspar Dutra's regime finally squelched the Revista. But when Getulio Vargas returned to power last January, Estillac Leal became his War Minister. He permitted the Red editors to revive Revista. When criticism flared, Estillac protested that he was a busy man and took a leave from the club presidency. Army anti-Communists grew angrier. After a bitter campaign, they won a promise that a referendum vote would be held on whether the membership really supported the Revista's leftist editorial policy...
...Brazil, where the Dutra administration's attitude toward the U.S. sometimes seemed poisoned by a sort of grandiose inferiority complex, Miller will find a different and in some respects greatly improved situation. President Getulio Vargas has announced that he wants to cooperate with the U.S. on a reciprocal basis. In particular, he wants industrialization loans. Miller, who knows as well as Vargas that Brazil can absorb far more in development loans than the $175 million the U.S. has allotted in the last two years, will take along Francis Adams Truslow, retiring head of the New York Curb Exchange...
Downfall & Comeback. In 1945, when dictatorships went out of fashion, army booted him out of office in a bloodless coup. Retiring to his native Rio Grande do Sul, he bided his time. As postwar inflation worsened, the Dutra government's popularity waned. By campaign time last year, the forces opposed to him had disintegrated...