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...thousands of Brazilians who found government hospitals and free-care clinics in Rio closed to them last week. Some 600 government doctors were on strike. The doctors' complaint: Brazil's President Joao Cafe Filho, determined to hold down government spending and stop runaway inflation, had vetoed a bill that would have upped minimum salaries of all government employees holding university degrees (TIME...
With the outraged public on the government's side. Cafe Filho declared the doctors' strike illegal, banned picketing, sent military doctors to work in civilian hospitals, fired the 210 department heads among the strikers. Eight hospital-picketing doctors, including the president of the Brazilian Medical Association, were jailed. In a radio speech. Cafe Filho called upon the strikers to "put an end to this sad. spectacle before the world...
When the sad spectacle lasted into the fourth day, Cafe Filho tried a small-carrot-and-big-stick approach. He summoned the strike leaders to Catete Palace, told them that 1) if the doctors would do their moral duty and go back to work promptly, he would try to find a way to ease their salary pinch, and 2) if they did not go back promptly, he would begin drafting them into the army. (Most young or middle-aged Brazilian doctors are rated as military reservists.) That worked. At their strike headquarters in the dance hall...
...Road to Tomorrow. Even more important for Brazil in the long run than Cafe Filho's economic program is the educational effect of his own character and his new kind of administration. Besides providing a conspicuous personal example of candor and integrity, Café Filho is giving Brazil a government that is opposed to nationalism and favoritism, that is trying to work out the country's problems instead of conjuring them away. Said a member of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies: "Café Filho is setting a much-needed example. He is proving that an honest...
With little more than a year ahead of him, Café Filho cannot be expected to cover much distance. "I do not expect my administration to go down as a milestone in the history of Brazil," he said recently. "I shall be fully satisfied if it is remembered as a bridge to better times." And if Café Filho can hold the world's biggest republic in the direction he has set, his administration will indeed deserve to be written down as a serviceable bridge along the road to Brazil's splendid tomorrow...