Word: goulart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rule. At first the issue was whether the demagogic leftist Vice President Joao ("Jango") Goulart, 43, would be allowed to assume the presidency in place of erratic Janio Quadros, who had quit his job and sailed away in a fit of pique (TIME, Sept. 1). Article L79 of the U.S.-style constitution was precise on the point: Goulart, even though not elected on the same slate as Quadros, had won a plurality of 200,000 votes last October, and therefore should take over as President. But Brazil's powerful military leaders said no. They flatly forbade Goulart to take...
Quadros' resignation was impulsive-but not altogether rash. He knew that if critics feared his own flirtation with Communists, they would fear his successor even more. In Singapore, having just led a trade mission to Red China, ambitious Vice President João ("Jango") Goulart, 43, a labor-wooing leftist demagogue, hopped a plane for home. Opposed by Quadros but elected (with Communist support) under the Brazilian custom of permitting separate votes for President and Vice President, Goulart automatically would become President of Brazil the moment he touches Brazilian soil...
...would not become final until it is published in the official government gazette. But at week's end Quadros said: "I will not turn back. My decision is definite." He plans to travel abroad for three months, he said, "to avoid embarrassing the next President of Brazil. Senhor Goulart...
...separate himself from his own Vice President, Joāo ("Jango") Goulart, a political opponent elected by means of an electoral quirk that permits ballot splitting, Quadros refused to call off corruption investigators, who have implicated Goulart in several scandals, or to blunt their reports. On a protesting letter from the Veep, Quadros scribbled: "Return, for not being written in adequate terms and not representing the truth...
...nomination, Lott accepted as his running mate Brazil's current Vice President, rabble-rousing P.T.B. Boss Joao ("Jango") Goulart. With Goulart came a platform that includes a broad right-to-strike law for Brazilian workers, strict curbs on the remittance of profits abroad, land reform, profit sharing for industrial employees. This platform brought automatic Communist backing, an estimated 200,000 votes...