Word: rochas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PORTUGAL has the Algarve, along the southern coast, now easily reachable by car from Lisbon over the recently opened Salazar Bridge. The chic people have begun to flock into two new ocean-view luxury hotels in Praia da Rocha and Portimào. The beaches and water are superb, the prices are reasonable, and there is a new 18-hole golf course, which will host this year's European Ladies championship. Another "find" this year will be the island of Madeira, 535 miles southwest of Lisbon; it has always had splendid accommodations, but its new airport opened 18 months...
Brazil. After a six-week testing of wills with the country's fractious Congress, President Joao ("Jango") Goulart and his Prime Minister, Francisco Brochado da Rocha, finally managed to achieve a kind of truce. In the Brasilia capital, Brochado da Rocha bluntly told Congress: "We are living at the door of a revolution. This government lacks the power to govern." That, plus his threat to resign, seemed to sink in. Legislators granted the government a package of emergency powers to keep the country together until next October's congressional elections, plus a promise to vote on returning Brazil...
Goulart's conservative opposition had already rejected his first choice for a Prime Minister, and Goulart himself had fallen out with his second. His third choice was hardly reassuring, Francisco de Paula Brochado da Rocha, 51, comes from Goulart's home state of Rio Grande do Sul and is an aide and confidant to Leonel Brizola, the state's rabble-rousing, far-left governor. Brochado da Rocha himself was a key man in the expropriation last February of Rio Grande's $7,000,000 U.S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. subsidiary. Still, sensing the public unrest...
...vote of 215 to 58, Congress swiftly approved his nomination. But when it came to agreeing on a Cabinet, more squabbles broke out. For four days the argument continued. It was ended only by word that Brochado da Rocha was threatening to resign and by far-left threats of a nationwide general strike if labor's choices were not approved...
...last Brochado da Rocha found 13 "nonpolitical" ministers acceptable to everyone. The two strongest members of a lackluster Cabinet: Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos, who held the same post under Janio Quadros, and Walther Moreira Salle, Brazil's leading banker, who holds over as Finance Minister...