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...insignificant act led to some startlingly drastic consequences for South America's biggest, most populous nation. The government imposed censorship on the country's radio and press, put the armed forces on alert, sent tanks rumbling down Rio de Janeiro's broad Avenida Brasil and, finally, suspended Brazil's constitution and shut down its Congress-both indefinitely. . Nest of Torturers. Alves, 32, is the chief parliamentary critic of the military strongmen behind Brazil's President Arthur da Costa e Silva. Last year, he wrote Tortures and the Tortured, a study of the brutal manner...
...other Houses various groups also are trying to discuss and formulate views on these important issues. A Dunster tutor, John Paul Russo '65, is drafting a statement suggesting to the Faculty that it would be far too severe a punishment to suspend those who sat-in last Thursday. He will present the statement to the rest of the Dunster Senior Common Room this week...
After that, State College Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke ordered President Smith to suspend Murray. Earlier, Smith had refused a similar request from the trustees, but now he had no choice. Black militants responded by calling a student strike that quickly spawned hit-and-run raids on campus buildings. Labs were ransacked and equipment ruined. Minor fires were set and a stink bomb was thrown into a library reading room...
...jingoism, the junta also seemed to be playing with the country's present economic wellbeing. The expropriation threatened to frighten off foreign investors. The U.S. could always cut off economic aid if the Jersey Standard subsidiary does not receive satisfactory compensation. Washington is also in a position to suspend purchases of Peruvian sugar, some $40 million a year...
...days after the Lower Saxony elections, the National Democrats' leader, Adolf von Thadden, was forced to suspend a series of scheduled party rallies after some 1,500 students broke up his first appearance on the hustings in Bonn. Shouting "Get the Nazis out of here," the students drowned out Von Thadden's speech and chased him from the podium with tear gas. But despite the setback in Lower Saxony, most forecasts predict that in next year's West German general elections, the National Democrats will win at least 40 of the Bundestag's 496 seats...