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...generals brought in as Finance Minister Antonio Delfim Netto, a brilliant, bullying Sao Paulo State finance secretary and former economics professor. Delfim has been given a free hand in running the economy and now, at 43, is the second most powerful man in Brazil, after President Emilio Garrastazu Medici...
...Trudeau demanded an invitation by telex -and got the White House O.K. within an hour. Italy's Premier Emilio Colombo also got Nixon's nod. Portugal's Premier Marcello Caetano made the list only because the Azores is Portuguese territory. When Brazil's President Emilio Garrastazu Medici arrived in Washington last week, he found his long-scheduled courtesy call upgraded to two hour-long sessions with the President. After the White House finally closed the appointment calendar, there were cries of protest from some unsuccessful summit seekers, notably Mexico and South Korea...
...seemed to work that way last week. In Brasilia, the President, retired Army Marshal Emilio Garrastazu Medici, who is usually withdrawn and formidable, declared a two-day holiday and played host to Pelé & Co. at a victory lunch in his modern Palace of the Dawn. During the jubilation over the win at Mexico City, Medici himself strode out of his palace in shirtsleeves to join a crowd of young Brazilians who were celebrating the national triumph in the streets...
Frontier Flavor. What Kubitschek could not achieve by evangelism, Brazil's military regime seems determined to accomplish by edict. In marking the tenth anniversary of the capital last month, President Emilio Garrastazu Medici decreed that Cabinet Ministers must henceforth conduct their business only in Brasilia. The Rio-based foreign diplomatic colony will have to follow suit by 1972. The move does offer one compensation to diplomats, though: Brasilia, with its limited escape routes, should discourage political kidnapings...
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