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...fighting started during a 24-hour general strike called by labor leaders in support of President Joāo ("Jango'') Goulart, who for three weeks has been engaged in a bitter power struggle with Brazil's Congress. In the town of Duque de Caxias, an industrial suburb ten miles from Rio, workers milled in the streets demonstrating against shortages of rice, beans and other staples. A jittery guard fired two shots, one of them hitting a small child. The crowd turned berserk, beat the guard to death, and for two days mobs sacked the town, looting stores...
Roadblocks Everywhere. As nothing else, the sudden anarchy brought home to Brazilians the peril of their patchwork political regime. Because the army and conservative Brazilians considered Goulart a dangerous leftist, he was not allowed to succeed Quadros in the presidency until a parliamentary system was hurriedly devised to confine his powers. The confining proved so effective that neither Goulart nor Tancredo Neves, the Prime Minister with whom he shared office, could get anything done. When they did agree, conservatives in Congress blocked virtually every badly needed reform bill Goulart's government proposed...
...months since, Goulart has worked hard to prove his moderation and win the conservatives' confidence. When Neves recently resigned to run for the Senate, Goulart wanted to pick a man of his own leftist convictions as Prime Minister. But conservatives in Congress feared that this would destroy the balance of power, and so rejected Goulart's first choice, Foreign Minister San Thiago Dantas...
...Soup. Most promising of the new common markets is the two-year-old Free Trade Zone of nine Latin American nations-Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador and Paraguay. Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos and Brazil's President Joao Goulart are already laying plans to freeze out all imports of autos and auto parts by arranging for each zone member to specialize in particular auto components. (In practice, U.S. and European automakers will simply make cars inside the Latin zone.) The Latin Americans have shown unexpected readiness to compromise their differences, last January agreed...
...parties that are among the most onerous burdens of Queens and Presidents' wives. All but two could gossip in English and in French. Jacqueline Kennedy and the Empress Farah are both amateur painters of competence. Jordan's Princess Muna and Brazil's Maria Tereza Goulart both think Frank Sinatra is the most. They are fond of serious music; almost all play the piano. Iran's Farah, the Ivory Coast's Marie-Thérèse Houphouet-Boigny and Monaco's Princess Grace all buy clothes from Dior, though Grace also fancies Balenciaga...