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...menacing sense of political crisis was in the air as Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek huddled with his Cabinet in a six-hour closed-door session one night last week. The urgent problem: what to do about the sudden emergence of a dubious, rabble-rousing political movement called the November Front, which had won the tacit support of one of the most powerful men in Brazil, War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott...
...wife went under the knife for 25 minutes to have her tonsils removed, Dr. Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil, put on surgical gloves, gown and mask for the first time in years, acted as assistant to the surgeon...
Buckling under the pressure of Nationalist army leaders, Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek last week halted thorium exports to the U.S., canceled the 1955 U.S.-Brazilian agreement to cooperate in exploring Brazil for deposits of radioactive minerals. The U.S. embassy in Rio first learned of the turnabout by reading about it in the local newspapers. Brazil's troublemaking Communists, who could never have brought off such a coup by themselves, whooped with delight. Bannered the Communist daily, Imprensa Popular: HISTORICAL VICTORY
...thorium oxide and thorium-bearing monazite sand, no uranium). The showdown came last week, when the Security Council, loaded with nationalistic armed forces brass, adopted a military-dominated commission's recommendations that Brazil suspend exports of radioactive minerals and end the joint-exploration treaty with the U.S. President Kubitschek meekly gave the nationalistic generals their way. Still in effect was the "Atoms for Peace" agreement in which the U.S., without asking anything in return, promised to provide Brazil with 13.2 Ibs. of uranium reactor fuel, donate $350,000 toward the cost of a research reactor...
...Next day Kubitschek and Zubiria flew on to Uruguay, deciding, by the time they arrived, that they felt "like citizens of the same country." After a noisy airport reception, the Brazilian President left for his own capital, where Vice-President Joao ("Jango") Goulart was entertaining Aramburu; Kubitschek managed to rush from the airport to the final reception for the visiting Argentine. Next day Aramburu sped off to Uruguay for a tumultuous one-day visit before returning to Buenos Aires-and Kubitschek settled down to await the arrival a few hours later of Bolivia's Hernan Siles Zuazo...