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...news of the "Ceara solution" spread, other linha dura officers took it as a hunting license. They ousted the mayor of Niteroi, across the bay from Rio, leveled charges of graft against the presidents of Brazil's Senate and Chamber of Deputies and the governor of prosperous Sao Paulo state. The man who drew the most fire was Mauro Borges, 44, governor of the central farmland state of Goias. He was charged with outright subversion. According to the military, Borges maintained a close link with top Brazilian Communists and has been receiving "bulky" sums of money from Cuba...
...civilian government, Huong had put together a Cabinet of younger men (average age: 47) than had ruled before. They were bureaucrats and technicians who in general were chosen for ability, not to satisfy political debts. The Cabinet was, in Huong's words, determined to "crack down on graft and nepotism, strengthen the economy, improve housing, education and health." What could be wrong with that? Plenty, according to powerful Ngu yen Xuan Chu, 73, acting chairman of the High National Council, a group of official watchdogs known to Saigon cynics as the "National Museum." Huffing that he had not been...
...Latin America have established that they cannot immediately be presumed to be bad. They represent a different breed than the medal-jangling "strongman" epitomized by Argentina's exiled Juan Peron and Venezuela's imprisoned Perez Jimenez. Today's soldiers are deeply disturbed about Castroism, disgusted by graft, inefficiency and thoughtless political warfare. Right or wrong, they claim to have seized power to prevent chaos. In most cases, they seem content to return to constitutional government after imposing at least a semblance of order...
...what people are paying." New Experience. Prosperity is a new experience for Guatemala, which scraped along for years in the banana-republic image-without industry, unable to import what it wanted, or even pay for what it did buy. During the regime of cantankerous old Ydígoras, graft and inefficiency, those standard Central American ills, cut the country's dollar reserves from $72 million in 1957 to $28 million in 1962. The foreign investors who might have helped stayed away-which was hardly surprising, with student riots in Guatemala City and grumbling peasants in the countryside. Then...
...three years since his Liberal Party upset the graft-ridden Nacionalista regime of Carlos Garcia, Macapagal has tried to create a "New Era" in the Philippines. He eliminated corruption in the higher reaches of government, stabilized the peso, passed a much needed land-reform bill to break up the vast estates that date from the days of Spanish rule...