Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is much to talk about at the lengthy Cabinet meetings in Rio's Laranjeiras Palace, where President Joāo Goulart makes his headquarters when he is in Rio. Brazil's economy is a shambles, the army uneasy, the unions are grumbling. But none of these rates as Topic A with Goulart. His consuming interest is what to do about the occupant of a palace less than a mile away: Carlos Lacerda, 49, governor of Guanabara state (which includes Rio) and Goulart's most dangerous political...
Lacerda is one of the most spectacular prodigies that Brazil has ever produced. The son of an influential Rio journalist, he was managing editor of one of Brazil's most powerful newspapers at 26, owned his own paper at 34, in between was the country's most popular columnist and radio commentator. As governor of Guanabara he has built schools, modernized hospitals, cleared slums and lured foreign investment to his state. But his strongest talent is for violent political warfare. "Carlos Lacerda," says his longtime friend, former Bahia Governor Juracy Magalhāes, "is a man who cannot...
Last summer a Brazilian farmer named Osório Fernandes took his don key Pelé with him to town. In the marketplace of Venceslau Guimarâes, a small boy began tormenting Pelé with a stick, and the donkey struck back-killing the boy with a kick in the head. Police Chief Emiliano Gonçalves had the farmer arrested, but Fernandes wept so profusely in his jail cell that Gonçalves changed his mind and locked up the donkey instead. The charge against the animal: murder. Osório Fernandes angrily leveled a charge...
Fifteen rabbits made it safely on a 500-mile Jeep trip from Rio to Barra, Bahia, with two corpsmen last month. The volunteers will do some demonstration rabbit-raising, hoping to move on to rabbit cooperative from there. A Peace Corps couple a Anglical, Bahia have a veritable "two-year plan": illiteracy programs, ceramics industry, youth clubs, a library, a vegetable garden, a health education class, model furniture, privies, water filters, and small dams. The couple, and most of the "new wave," call themselves "community developers...
...trouble. The project is finally turning out well because the administrators and volunteers are trying a more modest approach. The "helping-out-around-the-village" role of the Brazil volunteers may not sound impressive but it is effective. A favorable sign is that the requests being sent to the Rio Peace Corps office by village mayors call for volunteers to do "more of same...