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Brazilian Student Leader Vladimir Palmeira, 23, addresses his followers, including the clutch of strapping bodyguards who ring him in public, as "pessoal," or personnel. Until recently, that comradely term reflected to other members of the outlawed Metropolitan Students Union of Rio de Janeiro's Federal University. Last week, however, Palmeira led 25,000 people along Rio's Avenida Rio Branco in Brazil's largest public demonstration in four years #151; and those who walked with him included ordinary citizens, writers, professors, a labor leader and Roman Catholic nuns and priests. Thousands more waved signs and tossed confetti...
...Corbusier-designed administration building to "confront" him. Before they got there, two platoons of police cut them off with tear gas and an antiriot hose truck. The students retreated from street corner to street cor ner, waving clubs disguised in rolled-up newspapers and regrouping each time around Palmeira. Catholic-educated Palmeira, the son of a wealthy state senator who supports Costa, is disdainful of Russian Communism, also opposes "the weight of American capital in our country." When told that Dutra was out of town, he said disgustedly: "Instead of receiving us he sends cops...
...Battle. What next? The Communists would fight their ban. In a 15th-floor office on Rio's main-stem Avenida Rio Branco, moon-faced Communist Lawyer Sinval Palmeira clutched the multipage appeal he will present to the Supreme Tribunal. He had a diplomatic good word for the Yankees. "The U.S. Constitution," he said, "is helping me to write...
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