Word: goulart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months have passed since the dramatic abdication of Brazil's President Janio Quadros, and the country is still in a quandary, its politics confused and its economy in worsening shape. The new parliamentary system, installed to limit the powers of Quadros' demagogic successor, Vice President Joao ("Jango") Goulart, has limited the government's ability to govern. Laws go unpassed because there are rarely enough members of Parliament on hand to form a quorum. Both Goulart and his Prime Minister, who is supposed to hold administrative power, issue decrees as the mood suits them...
Brazil's harassed new President Joao Goulart sent a letter saying that he could not possibly get around to opening the exhibition before the end of the month; but those in charge of the sixth Sao Paulo Bienal decided not to wait to announce the prizewinners. The art world was impatiently waiting; the Bienal ranks with the Venice Biennale and the Carnegie International Art show in Pittsburgh as tops in prestige. And this year the Sao Paulo show is huge: 4,000 works by 1,049 artists from 51 nations-much too much to be absorbed...
Eminent Respectability. The Cabinet list that Goulart and Neves produced was certainly respectable. To tackle the economic chaos left behind by Kubitschek's inflation and Quadros' panic, they named as Finance Minister Walther Moreira Salles, a banker who twice served ably as Ambassador to the U.S. and has helped negotiate well over $1 billion worth of U.S. credits. As Foreign Minister, Neves named San Tiago Dantas. an expert in international law chosen by Quadros to represent Brazil at this month's U.N. General Assembly session. Congress accepted the entire Cabinet package...
...when Goulart's supply of sweet reason runs low, he can resort to the still powerful leverage left him by the constitutional amendment. He can veto bills passed by any majority less than 60% in Congress, and he can influence Congress itself through the members of his own Labor Party, which holds 70 of the 342 seats. Those 70 votes, added to the 116 of Neves' Social Democratic Party, give the new Prime Minister a bare majority. But if Goulart swings off into leftfield, his precarious majority may well vanish...
Prime Minister Neves is keenly aware of how perilous may be his survival when either an aroused President Goulart or a rebellious Congress may do him in. Sipping a Scotch, he assessed the parlous prospect before him. "I hope," he said, "to last a month at least...