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...both Costa and his predecessor are former army generals whose power rests as much on military support as on constitutional provisions. Yet last week, as he was inaugurated in the capital of Brasilia, Costa showed by word and deed that he will be no carbon copy of outgoing President Humberto Castello Branco...
...months remaining to him, Brazil's lame-duck President Humberto Castello Branco is restlessly pursuing his aim of completing the drastic remodeling of Brazil that he began after the army rebellion that overthrew Leftist President Joāo Goulart in April of 1964. During his drive to transform his country into a disciplined and modern society, Castello Branco has increasingly avoided Congress and simply started decreeing laws in what a top U.S. diplomat calls "an orgy of Calvinistic legislation." Calvinistic it may be, but it is a badly needed antidote for the orgy of inflationist and frequently pro-Communist...
When he took office almost three years ago, Brazil's plucky, pragmatic President Humberto Castello Branco came out against Communism, corruption and economic instability, and man aged to score some impressive successes (see WORLD BUSINESS). The way he did it angered many of his countrymen...
When the 1964 Brazilian military coup ousted Leftist Joao Goulart and installed President Humberto Castello Branco, one of the country's most desperate needs was an infusion of private foreign capital. Goulart's free-spending ways had so fanned chronic inflation that the annual increase in the cost of living was nearly 150%. Foreign investors had started paring their spending plans. Many companies had contemplated shutting down and forgetting the whole thing; one, International Harves ter, did just that. Now, only 21 years later, a dramatic reversal is under...
...Chamber of Deputies, plus all 22 state legislatures, local councils and municipal mayorships. Under Brazil's new government-decreed two-party system, voters could either cast their ballot for the government's ARENA candidate or for the opposition M.D.B.-thus theoretically voting for or against President Humberto Castello Branco's brand of "revolution." Such is Brazilian politics today that a vote for a government candidate was not always a vote for the government. Some ARENA candidates openly proclaimed-their opposition to Castello Branco. In Sao Paulo, one ARENA campaigner pleaded for votes so that "I can oppose...