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...economic growth rate of 11.4%, one of the highest in the world. Brazilians are happy with the relative prosperity the military dictatorship has brought. Geisel has also indicated that he will take a hard line on civil liberties, which have been suspended since 1964, when the generals overthrew leftist President Joao Goulart, Brazil's last freely elected head of state. In a speech delivered shortly after his election, Geisel warned that during his five-year term "any subversive tendencies or acts of corruption" would be crushed. For Brazilians who have lived with rumors of summary arrests, torture and execution...
...sentiments," Tanaka said, "but now I know how real they are." When he met with 13 leaders of the 400,000-member National Student Center of Thailand next day in an ornate salon of Government House, the encounter turned into a limping dialogue of mutual incomprehension. Since the students overthrew the military regime last October, they have become the most powerful political force in Thailand, overshadowing the caretaker government of Premier Sanya Dharmasakti. They complained to Tanaka that Japan was exploiting Thai labor, polluting the air and water with wastes from Japanese-owned factories, and generally turning the country into...
TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath was in Santiago during the September coup that overthrew the Marxist government of Salvador Allende Gossens; last week he returned to see what changes had been made by the new military junta. His report...
...Sihanouk government in exile suggests that the chances for compromise are dim. In Laos, however, the signing of the Vientiane agreement offers some prospects for peace. Since the spring, the Pathet Lao have sought to seperate themselves from their old Vietnamese and Cambodian allies. In Thailand, conservative students overthrew the pro-American ruling junta-- wonders never cease! And of course, the U.S. Congress has clamped a lid on U.S. bombing and enacted restrictions on Nixon's war making powers...
Chile's military junta, which quickly overthrew the late Marxist President Salvador Allende in a bloody September coup, is struggling now with an infinitely tougher task: righting an economy that three years of maladroit socialistic experiments left in a shambles. When the generals grabbed power, inflation was roaring out of control; farm, factory and mine production were scraping bottom; Chile's banking and financial system had all but collapsed...