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This year's shortage is somewhat artificial. Under Castello Branco, who came to power in the 1964 coup that overthrew Leftist Joao Goulart, the nation's 13 political parties were melded into two-an official government party known as ARENA and an official opposition party called MODEBRAS. Naturally, ARENA dominated Congress, and so when Castello Branco decreed that the next President would be elected by Congress, the opposition finked out. That left the field to Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva, 64, former War Minister, leader of the army's ultra-conservative "hard line...
When Brazil's army overthrew Leftist João Goulart in 1964, the generals declared war on Communism, corruption and - it would almost seem - the Roman Catholic Church. Fearful that Brazil's liberal, reform-minded church was spreading agitation in the depressed Northeast, the generals hauled in priests and bishops alike for questioning, forced several into "voluntary" exile, and cracked down on such "subversive" church organizations as labor syndicates and classes to teach adults to read...
...treatise, "Long Live the Victory of People's War," which was published last year, evoked startled interest in both Communist and non-Communist camps. Its thesis: that the poor nations of the world will isolate and overthrow the rich nations, just as China's peasants isolated and overthrew China's cities...
Barrientos had been boss before: 20 months ago he overthrew a civilian President, promised that elections would follow. As the campaign began, he made it clear that he was his own favorite candidate. To improve his image he shed one of his wives, toned down his mercurial ways, and surrounded himself with topnotch advisers. Over the months, he went on to build a reputation as a firm-minded reformer by cleaning up the Communist-run tin union and creating a rare political stability...
...biggest legal milestone in this field was last year's Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, which overthrew the state's law against the use of contraceptives as an invasion of marital privacy, and for the first time declared the "right of privacy" to be derived from the Constitution itself. Justice Douglas argued that "specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras formed by emanations from those guarantees. Various guarantees create zones of privacy." Such zones, he argued, emanate from the First Amendment's right of association, and the Fourth's guarantee against "unreasonable...