Word: silva
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Latin America looms large in this issue. In addition to the Punta del Este story, written by David B. Tinnin, there is a cover story on Brazil's President Costa e Silva (with eight pages of color photographs), written by Philip Osborne and edited by Edward Jamieson. All told, 27 TIME reporters, photographers, writers, researchers and editors worked on these stories...
...historic Punta del Este conference of hemisphere chiefs, Latin American leaders surrounded him and embraced him in one passionate abrazo after another. When they finally turned him loose, their wives besieged him for autographs. "This has been so beautiful," sighed Brazil's President Arthur da Costa e Silva. Said Mexico's Gustavo Diaz Ordaz: "President Johnson is showing heart for Latin America...
With these words, Artur da Costa e Silva last week set the tone and style for his term as Brazil's 22nd President. Governing is not only an art in modern Brazil but also a rather exclusive one: both Costa and his predecessor are former army generals whose power rests as much on military support as on constitutional provisions. Yet last week, as he was inaugurated in the capital of Brasilia, Costa showed by word and deed that he will be no carbon copy of outgoing President Humberto Castello Branco...
...that the Spanish are "the most unruly people in Europe," argued that religious freedom would only stir up trouble, just as the earlier measures granting workers and students more freedom resulted in the present rash of strikes and student riots. On a more philosophical level, Public Works Minister Federico Silva Munoz, 43, contended that granting religious liberty to minority sects would shatter Spain's spiritual unity. The ministers connected with the military supported the views of Vega and Munoz, adding that a weakening of military discipline might result if, as the bill envisions, non-Catholic enlisted men were granted...
Even so, Costa e Silva has little choice but to continue in Castello Branco's footsteps. Though out of office, Castello Branco will continue to command strong support within the Brazilian army. Just as he helped to overthrow Goulart, he could cause much trouble for Costa e Silva should the new government waver on the austere path he has set for Brazil...