Word: rio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report that Teodoro Moscoso signed an agreement with the governor of the state of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil "promising an immediate $50,300,000 in U.S. aid plus enough U.S. technicians to make sure the projects succeed...
Teodoro Moscoso, the Puerto Rican who bosses President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, flew south to Brazil three weeks ago in search of a little progress. By the time he reached Natal, capital of the drought-plagued Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, Moscoso had made up his mind on one thing: Brazil needed help in a hurry and its national government was so bogged down in political crisis that state and regional agencies were his best bet. Last week, after a conference with Rio Grande do Norte Governor Aluizio Alves, Moscoso signed an agreement promising an immediate...
...deal set a pattern for direct aid between the U.S. and a Brazilian state, and it represents quite a victory for Rio Grande's ambitious and aggressive Governor Alves. In his 19 months in office, Alves has drawn up plans to provide food, water, road and schools for his impoverished state. He lacked money. Nearly all U.S. aid for the northeast went to the federal government's SUDENE (Superintendency of Northeast Development), whose aim was long-range development. On a visit to Washington last month, Alves argued that he needed help right now; his starving people were easy...
...another; and to judge by their falling currency, both Brazil and Argentina are in an economic mess. The headlines are true and the financial crisis is real, but people long inured to trouble develop their own saving methods of endurance, apathy or escapism. Citizens of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro went about their affairs with a benumbed kind of ordinariness last week. Argentines flocked to the horse races at Palermo Hippodrome; Brazilians poured into Maracana Stadium for a futebol match. While they played, or worked at their jobs, the political disputation went...
...economic objectives, to the detriment of business activity and employment." Most businessmen recognized that to ram through reform, Kennedy would have to have benefits to confer to make up for the reductions in tax write-offs and tightening of tax loopholes. Drawled R. P. Baxter, president of the Rio Grande National Life Insurance Co.: "I think President Kennedy wants to hold Out so he'll be in a better position to bargain when the full tax revision bill comes around next year. And, man, do we need that!" If there is now some heightened recognition of the urgent need...