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...coup the week before that had closed down the Congress, caused widespread arrests and limited civil rights, Costa e Silva chose an obvious audience. In a 15-minute speech, the retired marshal gave the commencement address to the graduating class of the army's high-command school in Rio de Janeiro. Since the audience included military men who had engineered the coup, Costa e Silva went out of his way to stress two points. One, hardly necessary for him to state to such a group, was that the officers were justified in their crackdown...
Strong Winds. Presumably, Alves will be one of them-though the man who touched off the whole furor was no where to be found. Once they were allowed to resume publication, newspapers gave the story banner play, but they understandably shied away from overt editorial comment. Rio's Jornal do Brasil, however, printed a wry weather report that bore no relation to actual meteorological conditions. "Weather black," it said. "Temperature suffocating. The air is unbreathable. The country is being swept by a strong wind." With parliamentary democracy and the rule of law temporarily suspended once again, the wind...
...military parades to show their disapproval. Last week that seemingly insignificant act led to some startlingly drastic consequences for South America's biggest, most populous nation. The government imposed censorship on the country's radio and press, put the armed forces on alert, sent tanks rumbling down Rio de Janeiro's broad Avenida Brasil and, finally, suspended Brazil's constitution and shut down its Congress-both indefinitely. . Nest of Torturers. Alves, 32, is the chief parliamentary critic of the military strongmen behind Brazil's President Arthur da Costa e Silva. Last year, he wrote Tortures...
Their joy was short-lived. Brazil's military wasted no time in acting. General Siseno Sarmento, commander of the crack First Army based in Rio de Janeiro, conferred for 50 minutes with Costa e Silva and other military leaders at Laranjeiras, the President's Rio residence. Having failed to remove Alves by legal parliamentary procedures, they decided to do away with the procedures themselves. Costa e Silva, a former marshal, resisted briefly, then caved in-as he almost invariably has since succeeding another retired officer, Humberto Castello Branco, 22 months...
...first to be arrested under the new decree was former President Juscelino Kubitschek, whose popularity has consistently gained as that of Costa has waned. He was whisked away from the steps of Rio's downtown Teatro Municipal, where he had just addressed a graduating class. Also reported arrested: Helio Fernandes, publisher of the newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa; Osvaldo Peralva, director of the opposition paper Correio da Manha; several high officials of former regimes; and Singer-Composer Chico Buarque de Hollanda. His stage play, Roda Viva, was recently raided by right-wing thugs and its leading lady was tossed nude...