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Power-Stripped President. Homecoming as a hero contrasts sharply with Quadros' bewildering and unheroic abdication last August. In the crisis that followed. Brazil's military forced a switch from a presidential to a parliamentary system, designed to block rabble-rousing Veep João ("Jango") Goulart from gaining full executive power as President. But the result has been aimless drift and a leadership vacuum, under the Tweedledum-Tweedledee administration of power-stripped President Goulart and a dreamy Prime Minister named Tancredo Neves. As Quadros neared home, the danger of a Quadros power grab finally stirred Quadros' predecessor...
Kubitschek made plain his immediate objective: a plebiscite to restore the presidential system. He obviously hopes to succeed Goulart in the restrengthened presidency in 1966. In a television interview, Kubitschek explained his reasons: "Brazil can no longer remain without a command. The President gives the orders 33% of the time, the Prime Minister 33%, and the Cabinet Ministers 33%. Either we carry out the plebiscite or we will march toward a new crisis.'' In the U.S. last week for a month-long lecture tour. Kubitschek warned: ''This split of power might push the country into revolution...
Rusk entrusted the delicate task of talking a little firmness into the "soft six" to Argentine Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Cárcano. The Argentine at one point got President Arturo Frondizi to telephone Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart from Buenos Aires to plead for modification of Brazil's rigid hands-off-Cuba position. The U.S. had high hopes that Chile would come around; instead, it turned down every plea. Nothing worked, and at the end, although sympathetic with the majority cause himself, Cárcano was forbidden to cast Argentina's "big" vote with...
...that many Brazilians, disillusioned by what has happened to them since, are ready to take him back, even if they still think he done them wrong. His departure last August shook Brazil to its foundation. Military brass attempted to bar demagogic and leftist Vice President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart from Brasilia's Palace of the Dawn, and for 13 days, Brazil seemed on the edge of a civil war. To keep peace, and to preserve its constitution, the country finally let Goulart take office as President but converted it self to a parliamentary regime so that Goulart could...
...brainchild of a Castroite bloc of Deputies, and supported by extreme right-wing businessmen fearful of foreign competition, the bill posed such a threat to badly needed investment dollars that even do-little Prime Minister Neves was trying to get it watered down in the Senate. (President Goulart declared in favor of the bill.) Moreira Salles' finance ministry estimated that the measure would cost Brazil $250 million a year in investment and cause unemployment for 1,000,000 Brazilians. At week's end, the cruzeiro plummeted to a new record low of 400 to the dollar...