Word: nio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously playing East against West, President Jânio Quadros dramatically announced last week that in the next U.N. General Assembly, Brazil will vote in favor of debating the admission of Red China. Characteristically, Jânio held back his hole card-whether he actually favors Peking's admission to the U.N. But even his endorsement of debate on the stormy issue makes Brazil the first hemisphere country outside Castro's Cuba to buck U.S. policy on China. Coming from Latin America's biggest nation. Jânio's move might well make it more difficult...
...nio's China ploy came only five days after U.S. Ambassador John Moors Cabot had relayed President Kennedy's offer of stopgap credits-reportedly $100 million-to help tide Brazil over its economic crisis. The offer was made just as that crisis was forcing Jânio to order all ministries to cut their budgets 30% within the next two weeks and to clamp down on goldbricking civil servants, many of whom, thanks to political influence, have been allowed to come to the office only once a month to pick up their paychecks. Despite his nation...
Among veteran observers of the Quadros mind, both in Washington and Brasilia, Jânio's actions produced more resigned shoulder shrugging than alarm. Jânio's motives, the experts believe, are threefold: 1) a sincere desire to make Brazil more "independent" internationally, 2) the belief that to hold the allegiance of Brazil's left-wing voters he must make a show of "neutralism," 3) a profound suspicion that even in these days of "disinterested" foreign aid programs, the wheel that squeaks still gets the most grease. Almost certainly Jânio hopes that at least...
Even aging Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, 71, who rarely appears in public, was on hand for the gala occasion. Well guarded by police, Salazar boarded the Santa Maria, smiled benignly from the bridge for 30 minutes of vivas by the crowd, then descended to the ship's chapel to pray at the flower-decked casket of the young third pilot, the only fatality in the rebel capture of the Santa Maria. Across the wide Atlantic in Brazil, where he is enjoying asylum, rebel Captain Galvão added his own carnival note to the saga...
...Portugal itself, aging but agile Dictator António Salazar was having trouble with his own aftermath of the Santa Maria. He decided to allow people to let off a little steam. Newspaper editors in Oporto and Lisbon were given permission to publish an open letter addressed to the government by three opposition leaders. "Speaking in the name of many we know," the petition asked for "a government capable of inspiring the confidence of the country," and demanded "restitution to the Portuguese of their fundamental liberties-those same liberties which the constitution promises and which have become, to our regret...