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Rattled Noncoms. Last month the austere ballroom of Rio de Janeiro's Military Club shook with saber-rattling debate as officers protested the chaos and inflation around them and issued a two-week ultimatum for a 100% pay increase. Unless they got higher pay, shouted one officer, "it will not be the fall of the Bastille, but of Brasilia." Such talk annoyed the noncommissioned officers, a more left-wing bunch, who tend to consider Goulart something of a kindred spirit. From Rio's Sergeants' Club came accusations that the generals wanted to overthrow the President. A pair...
Mexico has never forgiven the U.S. for a little piece of Yanqui land chiseling. Back in the mid-1800s, the unpredictable course of the Rio Grande shifted southward at El Paso, leaving a 600-acre wedge of flat, sandy Mexican land stranded on the Texas side (see map). Mexico still claimed the land, known as El Chamizal, but the U.S. said no: the border runs where the Rio Grande runs. In 1911, the angry Chamizal dispute was put to international arbitration. The arbitrators sided with
...owners and relocate the area's 3,750 residents. Railroads that run through El Chamizal will be rerouted farther north. The U.S. and Mexico will then split the expenses of building six new bridges and cutting a new, concrete-lined channel to prevent further disputes over the wandering Rio Grande. Total estimated cost to the U.S.: $28 million...
...federal Deputy from Guanabara state. On TV and before the crowds, Brizola rails against the foreign businessmen in Brazil, cries for expropriation of their property, demands friendship with Castro, and denounces everything Yankee. But now Brizola is getting better than he gives. In paid ads in Rio's papers, he wailed: "I beg for, I demand justice against the group which manipulates the powerful Diários Associados machine in its campaign of infamies and injurious attacks against...
More to the point, Nasser charged that Brizola had filled his pockets by manipulating rice production in Rio Grande do Sul. And though Brizola had boasted that he had practically given away one of his farms to 30 peasant families, Nasser claimed to have documents showing that Brizola bought the farm for $10,000 in 1958 and sold half of it to a peasant cooperative last January for a handsome $21,600. "As one can see," concluded Nasser, "Deputy Leonel Brizola is a liar. He is nothing but a reformist in his own benefit...