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Brazil's doughty President Humberto Castello Branco has scheduled gubernatorial elections for October of this year and a presidential election for October 1966. Last week he sent Congress his long-awaited bill establishing the ground rules for who can and who cannot run in the elections. It was, as expected, a tough bill...
Last week Lacerda was on the march again. After first supporting the new government of President Humberto Castello Branco, he was now in violent opposition, particularly against the economic policies designed to curb Brazil's inflationary chaos...
Setting an Example. As businessmen watched their sales fall off, they got less and less sympathy from President Humberto Castello Branco. "Have you lowered prices?" he snapped at them. "Go lower prices, and then if your sales are still low, come see me again...
Before 1958, Lieut. General Humberto Delgado was an ornament of the regime of Premier António Salazar. He served for five years as a military .attache in Washington, and was Portugal's representative to NATO. But then Delgado made the mistake of campaigning seriously for the presidency in one of Salazar's mock elections. Defeated, Delgado was promptly fired from his job as director of civil aviation, and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy until he got a guarantee of safe conduct to leave the country...
Last week, after long brooding over the evidence, a Spanish tribunal identified the dead man as Humberto Delgado. There was no identification as yet of the woman. Precisely how they had been killed, and by whom, would be a matter of endless speculation...