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Loans & Phantoms. The evidence coming out about Goulart's method of acquisition is no less remarkable. According to investigators, an employee of the Fundação Brasil Central, a federal land colonization agency, cleared the way for Goulart's title to Cristalina ranch in Mato Grosso by convincing the former owners that their buildings would be burned to the ground unless they sold out at ridiculously low prices. The new government claims that Goulart got the 112,672-acre Fazenda Três Marias, another of his Mato Grosso ranches, free in return for giving the owner...
...property. More than 500 phantom employees have been found on the payroll of Goulart's Planalto and Alvorada palaces in Brasília-all hired by Jango. Government-paid employees worked on Goulart's ranches; the Brazilian air force built landing strips on them; the Fundação Brasil Central pitched in on construction work...
...expose Adventist anomalies, Eternity Editor Donald Grey Barnhouse, one of the top leaders of U.S. Fundamentalism, two years ago assigned Staff Writer Walter R. Martin to study the sect. Martin, a "research polemicist," who has already excoriated the Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Scientists from a Funda mentalist point of view, set to work and found to his astonishment that he brought not a sword but peace...
...talent for dramatizing the down-to-mud reality of the average American's experience in combat. His newest book puts the microscope to a phase of combat little known to the U.S. public: the painful, drawn-out stalemate (1952-53) that anti-climaxed the Korean war. "One funda mental question," says Marshall in his preface, "in Korea, 1953, and now, is how the American character continues to meet the test of great events...
JOAQUIN G. FUNDA Dumaguete City...