Word: kubitscheks
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...President. But the result has been aimless drift and a leadership vacuum, under the Tweedledum-Tweedledee administration of power-stripped President Goulart and a dreamy Prime Minister named Tancredo Neves. As Quadros neared home, the danger of a Quadros power grab finally stirred Quadros' predecessor, President Juscelino Kubitschek, to speak...
...method to drive his country off a single-export economy, and indeed to aid collective development in Latin America as a whole, Kubitschek proposed to President Elsenhower in 1958 an "Operation Pan-America." "Only with the name changed," he said amusedly, it has at last been adopted as the Alliance for Progress...
...Alliance--in which Kubitschek evidently places much confidence--he describes as "not just stop-gap assistance." One of his chief hopes is that it can stabilize commodity and raw material prices in South America...
...response to questions on more recent aspects of Brazil's politics and economics, Kubitschek made the following points...
...American taxpayers ought not to mistrust his country's use of Alliance funds. Since Presidents do not "dip into public funds" and a critical free press is always active, the U.S. has no cause for worry about Brazilian expenditure of light capital abroad. (Kubitschek did not comment on Brazil's current inflation...