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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...
...fearing that the same old political faces would reappear. And in fact they did. A coalition of Goulart's P.T.B. labor party and the P.S.D. of ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, stripped of his political rights for corruption, won the governorships of two key states-Minas Gerais and Guanabara (Rio). Even then, Castello Branco might have persuaded the officers to simmer down had it not been for the return to Brazil of Kubitschek from his self-imposed exile in France (TIME...
...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...
...long pole. No luck. Director Robert Day then ordered a native crewman to sneak up from behind and prod Major's rump. The Brazilian blanched and declined-until he was given an on-the-spot salary hike. Later on, Major shifted from depressive to manic, escaped during a Rio zoo take, sent visitors scrambling for their lives as he rambled free...