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...Brazil there was one big difference: the first stirring of new hope in a new leader, a man who symbolizes a break with a troubled past and a promise of a brighter today-President Joao Café Filho...
...present. Last August, in the midst of a shattering political crisis, after a group of top-ranking generals had warned him that he must resign for the country's good, tragic Getulio Vargas put a bullet through his heart. That was the time for Vice President Joao Café Filho (which translates as John Coffee Jr.) to step forward...
...strikingly different character from Vargas, Café Filho is far more concerned with the problems of today than the projects of the future, utterly lacking in any taste for the intricate maneuvers and favoritism of partisan politics. Instead of trying to hold all the administrative strings in his own hands, he has brought teamwork into the government, delegating real authority to his ministers and giving them firm support. Instead of trying to cure Brazil's economic ailments with painkilling expedients, he has adopted a bitter-medicine program of "disinflation" and austerity...
...make up for the loss of income, the doctors pressured Congress to grant a 25-50% rise in their government wage. But when hardheaded Finance Minister Eugenio Gudin pointed out that the bill would add a billion cruzeiros yearly to the bulging budget, Café Filho vetoed...
...crews would remain on duty to handle emergencies. But the President held firm, relying on Congress to uphold his anti-inflation program. For the delegates to the Hemisphere economic conference in Rio this week, the doctors' dilemma was a capsule review of Brazil's financial illness and Café Filho's strong medicine...