Word: jornal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strong Winds. Presumably, Alves will be one of them-though the man who touched off the whole furor was no where to be found. Once they were allowed to resume publication, newspapers gave the story banner play, but they understandably shied away from overt editorial comment. Rio's Jornal do Brasil, however, printed a wry weather report that bore no relation to actual meteorological conditions. "Weather black," it said. "Temperature suffocating. The air is unbreathable. The country is being swept by a strong wind." With parliamentary democracy and the rule of law temporarily suspended once again, the wind...
...Paulo's influential Jornal da Tarde declared such a mass arrest of benefit only to those "who fight to install a totalitarian regime in the country." In Rio, 200 students invaded the Education Ministry offices on Flamengo Beach. They grabbed books and pieces of scenery belonging to the National Theater Conservatory and heaved the lot out of office windows. They blocked traffic and collected tolls on an ad jacent expressway. In Fortaleza, police broke up student demonstrations with what they called "family-size" nightsticks. In São Paulo, the students' midnight skulkers sprayed "UNE" in paint...
...speakers who orated during the five-hour march made clear, Brazilians are deeply dissatisfied with progress under Costa, who promised to humanize the government when he took over as the army-picked candidate for President just over a year ago. Far from doing that, charged the sober dai ly Jornal do Brasil, Costa's administration "has surpassed all the limits of unpopularity known by its predecessor," which was headed by the stern Humberto Castello Branco...
Despite the army's clumsy handling of the situation, few doubted that the dead man was Che, and the sigh of relief throughout Latin America was almost as audible as a breeze whistling down from the Andes. "Guevara's death," said Rio's Jornal do Brasil, "is a dramatic warning to the planners of systematic subversion among us." In Camiri, where he is on trial as a member of Che's guerrilla band. French Marxist Regis Debray wept at the news of Che's death. "I would like to be at his side," he said...
With the weariness born of too of ten seeing grandiose plans turn to dust, much of the hemisphere's press was openly skeptical about results of the conference, which Rio de Janeiro's Jornal do Brasil called "nothing but words, timid words." Even while complaining, though, many publications reflected the new mood of self-reliance and independence inspired by the Punta del Este talks. Said Confirmado, an Argentinian weekly: "Latin America has proved that it rejects dreams and prefers at last to go to work." Endorsing the common market, Saāo Paulo's O Estado declared...