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Died. Francisco San Tiago Dantas, 52, one of the leftist powers behind Brazil's recently deposed President Joao Goulart, a wealthy corporation lawyer who started out as a conservative but later veered left to latch onto Goulart's rising star, as his Foreign Minister in 1962 authored Brazil's hands-off policy on Castro, as his Finance Minister in 1963 worked the other side of the street by promising economic reforms in return for a U.S. loan, in 1964 was about to be blacklisted by the anti-Communist purgers when they relented because he was so gravely...
Shortly before Chile's presidential elections last week, Salvador Allende, the Marxist candidate, received a "good luck" telegram from Joāo Goulart, the recently deposed far-leftist President of Brazil. That kind of luck was not what Allende needed. In a striking manifestation of democracy, Chile's voters overwhelmingly rejected Allende, rejected all the talk of Cuban-styled socialism, rejected all the Communists and leftists who supported him. By a vote of about 1,400,000 to 970,000, or 56%, they elected Eduardo Frei, 53, the tall, eloquent Christian Democrat, to be their President...
...seems like a good gamble. In the three months since Brazil's army toppled Leftist President Joao Goulart, the government has pushed through a 30,000-unit low-cost housing program, and is now steering broad agrarian, tax and banking reforms toward a vote in Congress. Businessmen are beginning to regain their confidence in the country, and the cruzeiro, which snapped back from 1,700 to the dollar just before the revolution to 1,300 on the day of Goulart's ouster, has remained steady ever since...
Peddlers"& Sin Czars. In Goulart's own official household, his presidential press secretary, Raul Ryff, 52, doubled -but in name only-as $6,000-a-year treasurer of one of Brazil's many social security institutes; his real sideline, according to the investigators, was peddling influence, and he picked up $25,000 on one coffee deal alone. A second member of Goulart's staff, his private secretary, added $15,000 to his regular $8,400 salary when Goulart named him minister-counselor for economic affairs in Brazil's Rome embassy; his nearest approach...
...Brazil's Congress, the investigators found that one of Goulart's Labor Party Deputies had made a fortune by adding 1,295 people to his personal payroll in return for a slice of their paychecks. A fellow congressman, one Tenorio Cavalcanti, 58, required almost no investigation: he was already well known as a fulltime gangster (13 killings to his credit) and the sin czar who-fully protected by his congressional immunity -built Duque de Caxias, on Rio's northern outskirts, into a wide-open vice mecca famed for its brothels, gambling dens, brawling street fights and general...