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Kubitschek's supporters prepared a White Paper to "prove" his innocence, sent a petition to President Humberto Castello Branco. The Brazilian Council of Bishops also did some petitioning. "Let those who are accused have the sacred right of defense," the bishops pleaded. Answered the chairman of the Central investigating Committee: "Defense is impossible...
...that is changing. Having kicked out Leftist Joao Goulart, Brazil's new President Humberto Castello Branco is determined to put his country's economic house in order once and for all. To do the job, he has chosen Roberto de Oliveira Campos, 47, a brilliant economist and diplomat, who was Brazil's Ambassador to Washington until last December, when he quit in disgust at Goulart. As Minister of Economic Planning, Campos knows just how big a task he faces. In 31 months of Goulart, the value of the cruzeiro plummeted 83%, and the cost of living rose...
...last week Humberto Castello Branco wrote a short note and sent it to the president of Brazil's Senate: "Because of my inauguration tomorrow as President of the republic, I have the honor of presenting your excellency this declaration of the worldly goods which I possess." There were seven items: an apartment in Rio worth $5,000, four parcels of stock worth $9,000, "one Aero-Willys automobile, 1961 model" and "a perpetual tomb in the São João Batista cemetery in Rio de Janeiro." The note was the considered duty of an honest...
Chamber of Deputies elected General Humberto Castello Branco, 63, an officer as highly respected for his intellectual ability as his soldiering, to become the new President. For two months the country's three military chiefs of staff will share the same powers as the President under the Institutional Act; after that President Castello Branco holds power alone...
...born out of wedlock but recognized by the father. Only a third of all Venezuela's women are married, and another 20% live as concubines. Divorce, once rare in the predominantly Catholic country, has doubled in two decades. In a pastoral letter last fall, Caracas' José Humberto Cardinal Quintero and all Venezuela's bishops tried to remind Venezuelans of the "dignity and obligation of fatherhood." Says Caracas Lawyer Aristides Calvani, a sponsor of child-care legislation: "Many of our people do not get married; their fathers did not, and neither did their grandfathers. It has always...