Word: goulart
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...cheers were drowned in the roar of protest from Roman Catholic churchmen and conservative organizations. Tito wanted to visit Rio and Sao Paulo; their governors flatly refused, saying they could not guarantee his safety. So for four days Tito hung around the backlands capital of Brasilia while President Joao Goulart wondered miserably what to do next. Tito's address to the joint session of Congress (on the growing importance of nonalignment in world affairs) was boycotted by four-fifths of the legislators...
...Brazil's ills on the calendar is like blaming winter on the woolly bear; but last week, as Brazilians watched their potentially prosperous country sink deeper into economic and political con fusion, it must have been August's fault. It could hardly be President João Goulart's; he hadn't done anything...
...inflation around them and issued a two-week ultimatum for a 100% pay increase. Unless they got higher pay, shouted one officer, "it will not be the fall of the Bastille, but of Brasilia." Such talk annoyed the noncommissioned officers, a more left-wing bunch, who tend to consider Goulart something of a kindred spirit. From Rio's Sergeants' Club came accusations that the generals wanted to overthrow the President. A pair of oratorical army sergeants were put in jail for tirades against the officers. When a marine sergeant was arrested for similar talk, 100 of his comrades...
...government's response was characteristic Goulart. For talking against the government, the army marshal who is president of the officers' club was arrested, along with other outspoken officers. But then everybody got a raise. Congress shouted through an average 80% pay increase for all federal employees, including the armed forces. President Goulart, who had solemnly promised President Kennedy a period of austerity in return for a $398.5 million dollar loan commitment, signed the big pay raise. Before the month is out, printing presses will have to roll off about 50 billion new cruzeiros...
...wild gossip, a melange that he now serves up at three-column length every day. His comments on politics and politicians are studiously uninhibited. A recent column started out with a take-off on the country's current President: "A surprising story is going around-João Goulart has decided to govern the country. Sources, despite their usual reliability, did not mention two things: 1) Where did Senhor Goulart learn to govern? 2) Where did he get enough energy to come to this conclusion by himself?" Act of Despotism. Fernandes got away with the attack. But the country...