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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...income for an urban family of four) fell from 39 million to 26 million between 1958 and 1966. Even so, it notes, the gaps in U.S. society continued to grow. "The central cities increasingly are becoming white-collar employment centers," the report says, "while the suburbs are becoming the job-employment areas for new blue-collar workers...
Solutions Make Problems. Once in power, the military inevitably create new problems as they solve old ones. Accomplishing the nearly impossible job of bringing under some control Brazil's ruinous inflation, the army's unbending political attitudes alienated so many Brazilians that the military men felt isolated and unappreciated (see following story). In Bolivia, Barrientos' army-backed regime has brought peace to the tin mines on whose exports the country's economic health depends. Yet his somewhat heavy-handed rule has infuriated and alienated Bolivia's students, who occasionally take to the streets in rock...
...Better Job. In a sense, the South American military can hardly be blamed for seeking to exercise political power. After all, they otherwise would have almost nothing to do. Their countries are not in danger either from outside attacks or surprise raids by neighbors. Yet the continent's nations keep nearly 600,000 men on active duty and spend more money ($1 billion a year) on military costs and armaments, including French-built Mirage supersonic jet fighters, than they receive from the U.S. under the Alliance for Progress and other aid programs ($776 million...
...movement with tough government action. They are also thoroughly disgusted with civilian politicians, who have failed to cope with the urgent problems of their countries. Trained in their own staff col leges or U.S. military schools, the officers, especially the younger ones, feel that they can do a better job...
...other was more significant: he asked, not too subtly, for the army to keep him in his job. Brazil's officer corps, like others on the continent, is currently split into at least two philosophies of governing. One follows the familiar military tradition of moving in when things go off course, then moving out again once matters have been set straight. The second group, deeply interested in economic growth, believes that progress in Brazil can only come about through continuing military rule. This latter group, whose spokesman is First Army Commander Syseno Sarmento, so far controls the military...