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Carved out of the wilderness 580 miles north of Rio, Brasilia was the creation of President Juscelino Kubitschek, who started building Brazil's new capital in 1957 as one sure way of opening up the country's interior. The "Capital of Hope," he called it. His successors felt no such attachment. Recoiling from the dust, disorder and frontier-town isolation, Janio Quadros called it "the cursed city," spent much of his time huddled in the palace projection room, guzzling Scotch and staring at Liz Taylor movies. Joao Goulart studiously avoided the unfinished capital for months on end. Construction...
Apartments Wanted. Brasilia started regaining momentum with the revolution that ousted Leftist Goulart 14 months ago and installed Castello Branco in his place. The new President has no love for the raw new city either. As a friend says: "In Rio the President works and rests. In Brasilia he only works." Nevertheless, he seems determined to finish what Kubitschek started. "The consolidation of Brasilia," says Castello Branco, "requires only time and money-mainly money...
View from Rio. To enliven the city's leisure hours, new movies, bowling alleys and a municipal theater are being built; green parks are replacing vacant lots. A fine new hotel rivals anything in Rio, and a 55,000-seat stadium is nearing completion for Brasilia's five professional soccer teams. The biggest push comes from the city folk themselves, who have formed 29 social clubs. "The government built buildings," says Maurice Shashoa, owner of the Terrace Club, "but it didn't make a capital. That's what we're doing...
Brasilia is still years away from the magnificent capital that Kubitschek envisioned. But the population is up to 330,000 with an- estimate of more than 500,000 by 1985. Today 120 of the Congress' 475 members live permanently in Brasilia instead of commuting from Rio and Sao Paulo. Next year the Brazilian Foreign Office will move to the capital, along with the 69 foreign delegations that now have their embassies in Rio. Other members of Brazil's official family should not be far behind. "I'm finding it increasingly difficult," says one U.S. embassy officer...
Brazil's Congress is expected to pass the bill after considerable debate-and possibly some softening amendments. To no one's surprise, Carlos Lacerda, the mercurial Guanabara (Rio) Governor who has been attacking the government for just about everything (TIME, June 11), denounced the bill as "bad, narrow, hypocritical, juridically wrong, politically wrong, morally wrong-another error of the revolution." Equally unhappy is the tight little group of army officers who call themselves the linha dura (the hard line) and are opposed to any elections. One of their leaders, Colonel Osnelli Martinelli, 43, publicly denounced Castello Branco...