Word: goulart
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Washington Conversation (CBS, 12:30-12:55 p.m.). Correspondent Paul Niven interviews Brazil's President João Goulart...
Power-Stripped President. Homecoming as a hero contrasts sharply with Quadros' bewildering and unheroic abdication last August. In the crisis that followed. Brazil's military forced a switch from a presidential to a parliamentary system, designed to block rabble-rousing Veep João ("Jango") Goulart from gaining full executive power as President. But the result has been aimless drift and a leadership vacuum, under the Tweedledum-Tweedledee administration of power-stripped President Goulart and a dreamy Prime Minister named Tancredo Neves. As Quadros neared home, the danger of a Quadros power grab finally stirred Quadros' predecessor...
Kubitschek made plain his immediate objective: a plebiscite to restore the presidential system. He obviously hopes to succeed Goulart in the restrengthened presidency in 1966. In a television interview, Kubitschek explained his reasons: "Brazil can no longer remain without a command. The President gives the orders 33% of the time, the Prime Minister 33%, and the Cabinet Ministers 33%. Either we carry out the plebiscite or we will march toward a new crisis.'' In the U.S. last week for a month-long lecture tour. Kubitschek warned: ''This split of power might push the country into revolution...
...lack of national leadership has led to the rise of regional demagogues, who have grabbed headlines for personal political gain. Leading the parade is Leftist Governor Leonel Brizola of Rio Grande do Sul state, a brother-in-law of Goulart, who in January began inciting peasants to occupy privately owned plantations. Last month Brizola stirred an international storm (and sorely embarrassed Goulart, who is to visit the U.S. next month to ask for $589,200,000 in Alliance for Progress aid) with his seizure of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. subsidiary in his state. Cynically, Brizola is offering...
Rusk entrusted the delicate task of talking a little firmness into the "soft six" to Argentine Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Cárcano. The Argentine at one point got President Arturo Frondizi to telephone Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart from Buenos Aires to plead for modification of Brazil's rigid hands-off-Cuba position. The U.S. had high hopes that Chile would come around; instead, it turned down every plea. Nothing worked, and at the end, although sympathetic with the majority cause himself, Cárcano was forbidden to cast Argentina's "big" vote with...