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When Latin American leaders assembled in Caracas last week to discuss their debt problems, a conspicuous absentee was the Finance Minister for the biggest borrower of all. But Brazil's Ernane Galvêas, who sent his deputy, had daunting problems at home. Brazil's new austerity measures, imposed in order to win needed loans from the International Monetary Fund and private banks, have aggravated the impact of recession and bad weather on the country's homeless and unemployed...
...concerned with upholding the old order. Many Spaniards suspected, for example, that the promised new chamber of the Cortes would do little to reduce the power of the National Council, which is dominated by the Francoist right wing. "I thought the speech would be conservative," declared Socialist Enrique Tierno Galván, "but I didn't think it would be reactionary." Added a high Communist leader: "Nothing has changed. It is the same as before...
...plight of the refugees worsens, their anger grows. Most are furious at the successive Portuguese governments that agreed to grant Angola independence. Few differentiate between Communists, Socialists and other left-wing parties in Portugal. Luis Galvào Lopes, 39, formerly an Angolan office worker, spoke for many refugees last week when he cursed the former Portuguese high commissioner for Angola, Admiral António Rosa Coutinho, calling him "Red Rosa" and the carrasco (executioner) of the refugees. What about a moderate like Socialist Leader Mário Scares? "The garbage is all the same," he answered...
...long last, a P2V Neptune flying from Puerto Rico found the Anzoátegui where no one expected it to be-180 miles off Surinam, sailing south down the coast of South America. Instead of Cuba, the hijackers were headed or Brazil, where another hijacker. Soldier of Fortune Henrique Galvão had taken Portugal's Santa Maria two years...
...Brazil, long a haven for anti-Salazar exiles, Captain Henrique Galvão called the Beja incident "a great step forward, just because it happened.'' Galvão, who daringly hijacked the Portuguese liner Santa Maria last January, conceded that the operation was badly led and planned, but nevertheless saw it "as a logical de velopment of the revolutionary process that has continued without interruption since the Santa Maria." He prophesied that 1962 "will mark the end of Salazar." The aging (72) dictator himself last week made one of his rare appearances before Parliament to deliver a speech...