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Reporting the story from Brazil was the assignment of George de Carvalho, 40, an American of Portuguese descent who has reported on the Brazilian people for three years as chief of TIME'S Rio de Janeiro bureau. De Carvalho and a staff of a dozen full-time and part-time correspondents ranged wide over the vast expanses of Brazil, conducted 150 interviews from the chief of the President's Cabinet to his schoolteachers. Following the President around Brazil, De Carvalho was on hand in the town of Florianópolis one morning at 6:30 when Quadros emerged...
...Paris' tart-tongued France-Soir compares him to "Marx-not Karl, but Harpo." Yet Brazil's common man calls him "messiah," "the savior," "the healer of our ills." As Quadros flogs his nation along his chosen path, other voices can be heard calling him "paranoiac," "autocrat," "dictator." Rio's Governor Carlos Lacerda, formerly a Quadros supporter, now a bitter critic, once termed him "the most changeable, the most mercurial, the most perfidious of all men ever to emerge in Brazil's public affairs...
...miserable peasantry (two ranches and two big sugar plantations invaded in recent weeks, riots in the city of Recife), the situation was approaching open guerrilla action. President Jânio Quadros, long a let's-leave-Castro-alone man, had to fly in an infantry battalion from Rio to help local army units keep order. When troops raided a Peasant League headquarters in the neighboring state of Paraiba, they found 100 rifles, reportedly exported from Cuba, thousands of Portuguese translations of textbooks on guerrilla warfare printed in Cuba, Castro-style military caps-plus a supply of good Cuban cigars...
...deal were hotly debated in the U.S. (see THE NATION), but in Latin American eyes, the proposal represents a monumental propaganda setback for Castro. Throughout the hemisphere, which Castro hopes to lure into sympathy with his Marxist revolution, the response to his ransom demand was one of disgust. Wrote Rio's moderately liberal O Globo, whose circulation is the biggest in Brazil: "Hitler wanted to trade Jews for trucks; Fidel Castro wants to trade Cubans for tractors. It may be that this shows progress or superiority of Communism over Naziism, but we cannot...
...case, to help make up the difference. But as is not so often the case, the money will probably be well spent. One major deficit item in Villeda Morales' budget is 200 new rural schools costing $5,000 apiece. Another is Honduras' biggest development project, the Rio Lindo-Lake Yojoa hydroelectric plant, which will eventually deliver 165,000 kw., enough to treble the nation's electricity, and bring hopeful new industry to the tiny towns sitting forlornly in the untilled savannas and tropical rain forests...