Word: pinheiro
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Lacerda and Pinta staked their political reputations on candidates running to succeed them. The candidates both men were backing lost. Negrao de Lima beat Lacerda's candidate Flexa Ribeiro in Guanabara. Israel Pinheiro crushed Magalhaes' gubernatorial candidate, Roberto Resende in Minas Gerais...
Caught in a Jam. At 3 a.m. the morning that Goulart was to present his request for a state of siege to Congress, a Goulart friend, Brigadier General Alfredo Pinheiro, accompanied by Lieut. Colonel Abelardo Mafra, appeared at the Vila Militar base in suburban...
...Lacerda resisted, shoot to kill-without fear of consequences. If taken alive, Lacerda supposedly was to be bundled aboard a plane at Rio's International Galeao Airport and flown to a secret destination. The artillery officer refused, saying that he needed a written order from his commander. Pinheiro and Mafra next went to the commander of a paratroop regiment, then to a commander of an engineer company, who finally consented...
Quite an Exercise. Both Pinheiro and Mafra admitted that the expedition took place. But they insisted that no actual kidnaping was intended. It was merely "an exercise," said Pinheiro lamely, to test the loyalty of officers to the constitution; Goulart personally had nothing to do with it. Lacerda's enraged U.D.N. Party demanded a full-scale congressional investigation, but that only led to more angry words and still greater confusion. From the War Ministry came rumblings that it was a matter for the military, not Congress, to investigate. And the military privately threatened to hang out some more dirty...
...capital, in the wilds of Goiás state, was actually a glorious shambles. "I needed five more days to get it ready." wailed Israel Pinheiro, Brasilia's chief builder and first mayor. "But we just could not spare the time." In a last-minute cleanup, Pinheiro put 60,000 men to carting off debris, planting palm trees, scrubbing the red dust off Architect Oscar Niemeyer's graceful buildings. In a single day. 2,000 steel light poles were planted; overnight 722 homes were painted white...