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...past 20 years, Carlos Lacerda has been one of the leading advocates of democratic government in Brazil. First as a journalist, later as publisher of his own newspaper, "Tribuna Da lmprensa" and finally as a state governor, Lacerda has continually fought to increase popular participation in government...
...first as campaign manager for President Juscelino Kubitschek, later as confidant to President Jãnio Quadros. Meanwhile, he edited A Noite, the government-owned paper, put out a magazine singlehanded, then became a political columnist before taking control last December and making himself publisher, editor and director of Tribuna da Imprensa...
Secret Memos. Fernandes' transgressions were hardly a secret. In his col umn in his own Tribuna da Imprensa (circ. 50,000), he had printed verbatim transcripts of two top-secret memos from the new War Minister to his field commanders-one a warning that army demands for a whopping pay raise, which the military has since received (see THE HEMISPHERE), were really a ruse to create a "prerevolutionary climate," the other an order to punish any armymen caught supporting a general then under arrest. "Rare are confidential, secret or reserved matters I am not informed of the very next...
...once disliked Quadros, Lacerda dislikes President Juscelino Ku-bitschek and his Social Democratic Party (P.S.D.) more. When he learned that U.D.N. President Juracy Magalhaes was negotiating an alliance with Kubitschek's P.S.D. that would make Magalhaes President in 1960, Lacerda conferred with Quadros, bannerlined the news in his Tribuna da Imprensa: JANIO...
Cause of the panic was the allegation that men had been feminized by eating beef of steers fattened with the aid of a female hormonal substance, stilbestrol. The Tribuna do Povo reported that husky Sebastiao de Lima Serra of Aragatuba, 500 miles north of Rio, had suffered a "veritable metamorphosis, turning into a docile, falsetto-voiced creature of strange customs." Serra blamed his plight on the hormone-treated beef. Rio's state government proclaimed: "The necessary measures will be taken to end this evil...