Word: sao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil v. Milan of Italy-and all Brazil braced for the familiar frenzy. Work came to a standstill; every radio and TV set was tuned to the broadcast. In Brasilia President Joao Goulart canceled all appointments and camped by his radio; congressional committees recessed; Alliance for Progress meetings in Sao Paulo were scheduled around game time. And in Rio 150,000 passionate souls, every man jack of them willing to part with his last cruzeiro, squeezed into Maracana Stadium for the games. Games? It was more like a Latin American madness...
When the second annual meeting to review the Alliance for Progress convened in Sao Paulo last week, Brazilian President Joao Goulart sharply criticized United States efforts to aid Latin America. The Alliance is ineffective, he argued, because it is improperly managed; in other words, the United States Agency for International Development mishandles the billion dollars a year that the Alliance funnels into Latin America. He called for the establishment of an inter-American fund bank to replace the Alliance. This bank would be financed largely by the United States, but its direction would be entirely Latin. "Today, and each...
Figueres said he felt that Goulart's statement in Sao Paulo Monday, which seemed in Sao Paul Monday, which seemed to exclude the United States from the proposed economic alliance, might be the prelude to some "long overdue revisions of the whole economic relationship between industrial and non industrial nations...
...year ago, when they left Rio de Janeiro for their "duty stations" in a long, arid river basin 500 miles away, the volunteers were advised to look up the local officials of the Commissao do Vale do Sao Francisco (CVSF). The CVSF, a federal agency charged with developing the river basin, was supposed to supply Brazilian technician counterparts to the volunteers in each station...
...every side. The labor unions, which brought him to political power, denounce him for resisting impossible wage boosts. Last month loyal army troops put down a flash rebellion of air force and navy noncoms. On the right, the two most powerful state governors, Guanabara's Carlos Lacerda and Sao Paulo's Adhemar de Barros, talk about taking matters in their own hands-and point ominously to some 70,000 state troops at their command. Last week Lacerda told a reporter for the Los Angeles Times that he expected total collapse before long. "I don't think this...