Word: silva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only politician in Brazil able and anxious to make a public speech last week was Arthur da Costa e Silva, President of the republic. In the wake of an army coup the week before that had closed down the Congress, caused widespread arrests and limited civil rights, Costa e Silva chose an obvious audience. In a 15-minute speech, the retired marshal gave the commencement address to the graduating class of the army's high-command school in Rio de Janeiro. Since the audience included military men who had engineered the coup, Costa e Silva went...
...interested in economic growth, believes that progress in Brazil can only come about through continuing military rule. This latter group, whose spokesman is First Army Commander Syseno Sarmento, so far controls the military in Brazil-and is unhappy with what it considers a more lenient posture by Costa e Silva. The old marshal therefore declared himself to be "a companion in arms" who "not even for one day forgets his loved days in the Brazilian army. The tranquillity and the order of this country are our responsibility...
...relation to actual meteorological conditions. "Weather black," it said. "Temperature suffocating. The air is unbreathable. The country is being swept by a strong wind." With parliamentary democracy and the rule of law temporarily suspended once again, the wind of popular resentment may well increase in velocity. What Costa e Silva and his generals may have overlooked is that in classical drama the fifth act is also usually the last...
Just before midnight on the day following the Alves vote, a solemn-faced Justice Minister Luiz Antonio da Gama e Silva interrupted radio and television broadcasts to announce that the President had signed the Fifth Institutional Act, giving him full dictatorial powers in "defense of the necessary interests of the nation." The act, the fifth of its kind in the last four years, gave Costa e Silva the right to close Congress, rule by decree, cancel the political rights of any person, declare a state of siege, dismiss public officials, waive writs of habeas corpus, and permit the seizure...
...Singer-Composer Chico Buarque de Hollanda. His stage play, Roda Viva, was recently raided by right-wing thugs and its leading lady was tossed nude into the street, supposedly because it portrayed sexual intercourse on the stage. In addition, as many as 40 Congressmen, including members of Costa e Silva's majority, as well as the opposition, may be stripped of their political rights...