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...Rule. At first the issue was whether the demagogic leftist Vice President Joao ("Jango") Goulart, 43, would be allowed to assume the presidency in place of erratic Janio Quadros, who had quit his job and sailed away in a fit of pique (TIME, Sept. 1). Article L79 of the U.S.-style constitution was precise on the point: Goulart, even though not elected on the same slate as Quadros, had won a plurality of 200,000 votes last October, and therefore should take over as President. But Brazil's powerful military leaders said no. They flatly forbade Goulart to take...
Before dawn, the tanks clanked into position in Rio. Censors took over the press, cables, radio and TV. Those who protested too loudly were summarily arrested. On the evening of the first day, retired Field Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, who ran unsuccessfully for President last year with Goulart as his running mate, telephoned War Minister Denys and demanded that he obey the constitution. Denys refused...
...uneasy reporters standing before his white cottage in Brasilia Denys cried: "Do you want your children to be brought up Communists? The time has come to choose." Committees of Resistance. But now ' other voices were beginning to make themselves heard in Brazil - not in favor of Goulart, who by now was dithering away in Paris wondering what to do, but in favor of constitutional democracy. In Brasilia, the small Liberal Party pro claimed itself ready to "battle to the death for our detested adversary Joao Goulart." Dozens of Senators and Dep uties urged the military men to recon sider...
...south, in Goulart's home fief of Rio Grande do Sul, Governor Leonel Brizzola was calling the gauchos to arms on Goulart's behalf. Brizzola, who is Brazil's most rabidly anti-Yankee governor and Goulart's brother-in-law, blocked the harbor in Porto Alegre, barricaded the streets, and began recruiting rawhide-tough cowboys into "Committees of Democratic Resistance." He called up the state militia, mobilized police, had trenches dug, surrounded his palace with barbed wire and put machine guns on the roof. But more important than all these precautions, he won the solid support...
...would not become final until it is published in the official government gazette. But at week's end Quadros said: "I will not turn back. My decision is definite." He plans to travel abroad for three months, he said, "to avoid embarrassing the next President of Brazil. Senhor Goulart...