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...Brazil's losing presidential candidate, Euler Bentes Monteiro, but he was wrong. To the surprise of no one, the country's electoral college-heavily weighted in favor of the pro-government Alliance for National Renewal (ARENA)-chose General Joao Baptista Figueiredo, 60, to succeed retiring President Ernesto Geisel for a six-year term beginning in March. The predictable vote was 355 for Figueiredo, vs. 226 for Monteiro, who represented the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), the country's only legal opposition party...
...opposition to its plans to buy nuclear reactors from West Germany. At the airport, Carter set an up beat tone for his visit by describing Brazil; the world's seventh most populous nation, as a "truly great power." In a cool but polite welcoming statement, Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel hoped that Carter would take away "a fair opinion on the Brazilian reality...
...Planalto Palace, both leaders touched only briefly on the issues that divide them. Carter urged Brazilians to consider fueling their nuclear reactors with thorium rather than uranium. Reason: uranium-fueled reactors produce more plutonium that can readily be used in nuclear weapons than thorium-fueled reactors would produce. But Geisel seemed unpersuaded, and Carter did not press the matter. "What would it accomplish?" asked a top White House aide. "Neither side is going to change, so we might as well spend our time discussing things of mutual interest." Thus discussions centered on economic relations and prospects for peace...
Later the members of Brazil's National Congress (which Geisel had closed for two weeks in 1977) applauded Carter after he made another endorsement of human rights. Federal Deputy Erasmo Martins Pedro, leader of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement, hailed Carter's views as "a response to the most profound demands of ethical consciousness and not of political conveniences dictated by the international situation...
Like leaders of other governments along the tour, Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés Pérez said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the "extraordinary woman." Brazilian officials gave their poised and well-briefed visitor high marks for her meetings with President Ernesto Geisel. Said one diplomat: "This lady knows what she's talking about. She asks the right questions and has the right answers. There's no fooling around." Speaking her mind, the First Lady re-emphasized to Geisel her husband's concern about nuclear proliferation. The Brazilians resent Carter's opposition...