Word: joao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reform bill pending in its Congress. Democratic and long-stable Uruguay instituted a personal income tax. increased its corporate tax two years ago. saw its revenues jump 22% last year. Argentina has added 200,000 residents to its tax rolls. Brazil's leftist President Joao Goulart not only is prodding his tax collectors, too, but is trying seriously to cut his federal budget and check inflation. His finance minister, San Thiago Dantas, came to Washington last week and, instead of begging for new loans, asked merely for more time to repay old ones (see HEMISPHERE...
...took months to prepare the way. An emergency plan had to be designed to curb Brazil's breakneck inflation, which has raised the cost of living 5-5.4% since February 1962. President Joao Goulart, who built his political reputation as a wage-boosting leftist demagogue, had to take steps aimed to prove that his ways had changed. Last week, when all was ready-or as near ready as possible, Brazil formally asked the U.S. to save it from bankruptcy...
...countries tried to negotiate a joint fishing arrangement, the six-boat French fleet fished on, and Brazilian warships seized three French vessels. Two weeks ago, Brazilian President Joao Goulart gave France 48 hours to withdraw all its boats. Until then De Gaulle himself had remained above the squabble, perhaps because Brazil fitted somewhere in his grand design. He had invited Goulart to visit Paris some time this year, and an emissary had recently reported back after a swing through Latin America that France, in need of new markets, should woo Brazil...
Although the Brazilian economy has shown a marked improvement over the last several months, President Joao Goulart is "too much an opportunist to continue this necessary but unpopular economic planning," Thomas Skidmore, research fellow in Latin American Studies, said Tuesday...
...polls to vote on how powerful the country's presidency should be. In September 1961, after Jânio Quadros' petulant resignation and flight, Brazil's conservatives had imposed a power-splitting parliamentary system as a condition for accepting Quadros' successor, Vice President Joao ("Jango") Goulart, whom they feared as a dangerous demagogue and leftist. Last week by a 5-to-1 margin, Brazilians rendered a vote of no confidence in the parliamentary system and ordered a return to a strong presidency...