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...families, first using former Trujillo holdings, then buying land with money from an agrarian reform tax. His most worrisome tendency, at least to outside eyes, was his habit of resigning his candidacy when things did not go right, in a manner reminiscent of Brazil's unstable ex-President Janio Quadros. A week before election, Bosch furiously withdrew when a minor Roman Catholic priest said that some of his old writings had a Marxist ring. Bosch confronted the priest in a TV debate, got him to withdraw the charge and used the incident to advantage...
...least some Brazilians thought it had. Hermano Alves, one of Rio's leading editorialists, recalled the stormy sessions in 1961 when President Kennedy's emissary, Adolf Berle. called on Janio Quadros to ask for cooperation on Cuba: "Mr. Berle went to see Janio Quadros and came out looking angry. Thus began Brazil's independent foreign policy. This week...
...biggest name in Brazil's midterm state and congressional elections last week got the biggest comeuppance. Janio Quadros, 45, elected mayor of Sao Paulo city in 1953, governor of Sao Paulo state in 1954 and President of Brazil by a record margin in 1960, was running for office for the first time since he abdicated the presidency in August 1961. He chose his old stamping ground, Sao Paulo, and his old job, governor. Totting up the official returns takes weeks in Brazil, but all indications are that Quadros suffered a humiliating defeat. With 86% of the ballots counted...
Brazil, a country almost as big as the U.S. (3,287,842 sq. mi.) and with a population expected to reach 200 million by 2000, has been spinning adrift for eleven months, ever since President Janio Quadros quit. Now, in place of a strong presidency, it has a two-headed parliamentary system that isn't working. Bloody riots in the streets, and the possibility of worse ones, last week brought bickering politicians into a semblance of truce...
...last Brochado da Rocha found 13 "nonpolitical" ministers acceptable to everyone. The two strongest members of a lackluster Cabinet: Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos, who held the same post under Janio Quadros, and Walther Moreira Salle, Brazil's leading banker, who holds over as Finance Minister...