Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience of the civil war in the Dominican Republic shows how much trouble a group of well-prepared Castroites can cause when given such an opportunity. At the OAS foreign ministers meeting in Rio next week, a prime topic will be what kind of armed response the hemisphere should organize to meet the threat of Castroites waiting to capitalize on weakened governments. The suggestions will range from a permanent multilateral peacekeeping OAS force to a more limited group of volunteer countries that would establish a strike force for emergencies. With continuing Castroite subversion in prospect, those emergencies seem sure...
Armed with its harsh new Institutional Act, Brazil's revolutionary gov ernment pressed relentlessly ahead in its war against Communism, corruption and all the other things it finds wrong with Brazil. In Rio, rumors flew that recently returned ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, still sick abed after two weeks of military questioning about his graft-riddled 1956-61 regime, would soon be heading back to exile. In Sao Paulo, erratic ex-President Janio Quadros was called before a military tribunal amid stories that he and scores of others were going to jail for corruption during his wild seven-month regime...
...could hardly be more different in personality. Costa e Silva is a soldier's soldier, as bluff and hearty among his officers as Castello Branco is quiet and intense. Yet they work together as closely as the barrels of a shotgun; they graduated in the same class at Rio's Realengo Military Academy and have been on the same side in every crisis since...
...putting Castello Branco in the presidential palace. Since then, he has been a buffer between the soft-lining President and the linha dura (hardline) officers, who want ironhanded "revolutionary government." Last month, after anti-government candidates won gubernatorial elections in the key states of Minas Gerais and Guanabara, Rio's powerful First Army was on the verge of revolt-until Costa e Silva stepped in. "You must trust your commanders," he told the officers. "They are just as revolutionary...
...office in Rio last week colonels and generals toasted the Institutional Act with champagne. "Instead of stating that corruption and subversion are out," said a colonel, "this act declares that corruption is out, out, out and out, and subversion is out, out, out and out!" Many other Brazilians were dismayed at the government's iron-fisted turn to rule by decree. Yet by and large the country took it calmly, with surprisingly few demonstrations or open protests of any kind...