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Negotiations for the Brazil project went ahead anyway, Lapa volunteer Jim Murray, 32, from St. Paul, Minn., had the impression that "the whole thing was a big political move by President Joao Goulart. Having the Peace Corps here is a political advantage to Brazil. Goulart was in a hurry to get as many down here as possible. When we arrived, naturally many of us didn't have work...
...seems to have the greatest tolerance for chaos. Yet such was the anger and confusion last week that Brazilians on every side despaired for their country. Having just demanded emergency dictatorial powers from Congress as the only hope of preventing civil war "at any moment," President Joāo Goulart was forced to withdraw the demand in the face of opposition by Congress, labor unions, state governors, and general public opinion. Goulart said the withdrawal was made possible "by new circumstances." But the only new circumstance was an abortive plot by the President's cronies to kidnap his severest...
Caught in a Jam. At 3 a.m. the morning that Goulart was to present his request for a state of siege to Congress, a Goulart friend, Brigadier General Alfredo Pinheiro, accompanied by Lieut. Colonel Abelardo Mafra, appeared at the Vila Militar base in suburban...
Quite an Exercise. Both Pinheiro and Mafra admitted that the expedition took place. But they insisted that no actual kidnaping was intended. It was merely "an exercise," said Pinheiro lamely, to test the loyalty of officers to the constitution; Goulart personally had nothing to do with it. Lacerda's enraged U.D.N. Party demanded a full-scale congressional investigation, but that only led to more angry words and still greater confusion. From the War Ministry came rumblings that it was a matter for the military, not Congress, to investigate. And the military privately threatened to hang out some more dirty...
...week's end, the battle lines grew steadily tighter, and Brazil was rapidly running out of peaceful solutions. A tired-eyed Goulart, weary from worry and no sleep, was maneuvering feverishly and unpredictably-not at all like the old pro of a few months ago. Throughout the country there was an air of desperation. History, as one Brazilian newspaper said, was being written by the minute...