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...countries tried to negotiate a joint fishing arrangement, the six-boat French fleet fished on, and Brazilian warships seized three French vessels. Two weeks ago, Brazilian President Joao Goulart gave France 48 hours to withdraw all its boats. Until then De Gaulle himself had remained above the squabble, perhaps because Brazil fitted somewhere in his grand design. He had invited Goulart to visit Paris some time this year, and an emissary had recently reported back after a swing through Latin America that France, in need of new markets, should woo Brazil...
Speaking to the Harvard Latin American Association, Skidmore noted that Goulart has failed to continue former President Kubitscheck's program to open the Brazilian interior for industrial investment...
Kubitschek centered his program about the new Brazilian capital, Brazilia, in southeastern Brazil. "Work on the capital has been progressing at a much slower pace since Goulart took office," Skidmore said...
...Goulart's economic planners have initiated three programs to curb inflation: they first ended government subsidies on oil and wheat; second strictly out back the hiring of governmental employees to reduce bureaucratic waste; and third, announced a three-year program for economic growth which will work with the Alliance for Progress...
Skidmore suggested that even these programs were politically oriented because they "favored the poor over the wealthy." The success of Goulart's measures is due to the results of the January plebiscite which restored the presidential powers removed...