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...income, Kubitschek's budget wizards produced a fictitious surplus, estimated at 520 million cruzeiros. Even that "surplus" lasted only until Congress met to consider the matter and added more than 1,000 amendments (among them: deputies doubled their living allowances, voted themselves four all-expense round trips to Rio every month). In the blithe realization that it will be Quadros who will have to whittle the monster budget down to unpopular reality, Kubitschek signed the document, and then proceeded to open the permanent civil service rolls to an estimated 10,000 cronies and party hacks...
...first ran in the daily paper of Porto Velho, a steamy jungle city 2,000 miles in from the sea up the Rio Madeira tributary of the Amazon river. Last week papers all over Brazil were still delightedly reprinting...
...longer would the natives have to send money for caninha out of the territory to Rio de Janeiro from which it took five months by river to reach Pôrto Velho. More important, the ships can carry badly needed beans and flour instead...
...bombs earlier in the week, but none worse. In place of the usual black-powder noisemakers planted in the suburbs, these bombs were exploded downtown and were packed with dynamite. The provinces were not far behind. Saboteurs on horseback burned out an Agrarian Reform Institute garage in Pinar del Rio, derailed the Havana-Santiago express train at Santa Clara, fired a Havana-Santiago...
...provinces, fires destroyed 2,500 tons of sugar cane and a tobacco-curing house in Pinar del Rio. In mid-island Camagüey province, two trains were derailed by sabotage; Camagüey city itself was darkened for four hours by the bombing of a key power transformer...