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Brazil is a giant land of such confidence in its future that it is often neglectful of its present. At a time when its foreign debts were increasing, its reserves almost gone, and its 75 million people plagued by inflation, Brazil's President João Goulart turned to the game he likes best-politics. He confronted his problems by shuffling his Cabinet for the fourth time in 22 months...
First he kept everyone guessing. Every day, from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m., Goulart's futuristic presidential palace at Brasília was besieged by Congressmen, Senators, governors, labor leaders, industrialists, generals, and special pleaders of every stripe and shape. To each delegation, Goulart, always smiling, gave his "full support." He was, he said, intending to create a "homogeneous" Cabinet of kindred spirits dedicated to his three-year stabilization plan. Plane traffic in and out of Brasília was so heavy that the country's four major airlines set up temporary counters in the lobby...
Brazil's President Joāo Goulart, who rode nationalism to power himself, has called foreign-owned utilities "a cadaver in the road to good relations" and has announced plans to buy out all foreign utility companies in the country. Goulart has already negotiated the purchase of International Telephone and Telegraph holdings, of American & Foreign Power Co. installations, and the Light's Rio telephone company. Since he has paid fair prices so far, and the Light expects to be nationalized sooner or later, the Light would just as soon it were sooner than later. Let someone else listen...
...disappointing start, and has never lacked critics to advertise the fact. Last week from all sides came a fresh flurry of criticism and thoughts on how to set it right. At a press conference in Santiago, Chile, where he was on a state visit, Brazil's President Joao Goulart said that the Alliance "fulfills neither the objectives nor the high hopes raised when it was formulated two years ago." Goulart, whose country is the program's biggest beneficiary, called for a "cool and calm" reappraisal aimed at "remodeling" the Alliance's machinery...
...congress organizers found nothing available. When the organizers finally rented a hall in Rio, Guanabara State Governor Carlos Lacerda, a onetime leftist who has become the most outspoken enemy of the Communists in all Brazil, took his own steps. First he sent his military aides to see President Goulart's military aides and ask what would be the presidential reaction if he banned the congress altogether. Answer: What are you waiting...