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...Hsinhua: "The new intervention on the part of the U.S., which came at a moment when U.S. imperialism was wildly extending its aggression in Viet Nam, threw further light on its hideous feature as the international gendarme." The U.S. Communist Party called it a return to "gunboat diplomacy." In Rio de Janeiro, the newspaper Jornal do Brasil said that Johnson's moves "represent the death certificate of the present structure of the inter-American system." But few responsible voices in the U.S. joined the criticism...
...from hundreds of admirers, including Novelists Graham Greene and François Mauriac, and Switzerland's Charles Cardinal Journet. Last week the federal supreme court unanimously granted Arraes a writ of habeas corpus-in effect, ordering his release forthwith from Fort Santa Cruz across the bay from Rio. His jailers simply ignored the order, as well as a brusque telegram from the supreme court president directing the generals to "accept the decision just as it was communicated...
...that point, Castello Branco flew into Rio from Brasilia for a hastily summoned conference with top army brass and ordered Arraes released. And that was that. After 386 days in jail, Arraes was freed. To be sure the message was not lost on the linha dura, Castello Branco also fired off orders to all military-inquiry boards to wrap up their business as soon as possible...
...more far-reaching is the change within nordestinos themselves. Says Recife Industrialist Renato Bezerra de Melo: "You feel a crazy desire on the part of everybody to learn-even among the illiterate. I can start any kind of course in my factory, and 200 workers will show up." In Rio Grande do Norte, one newly literate farm hand-still thrilled with the simple miracle of being able to read seed packages-explained why: "I have suddenly discovered that...
When his ragged troops reach the near shore of the Rio Grande, the major must give up the chase or ford the river into Mexico. How? "We'd better walk on water," suggests an aide...