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...parties were melded into two-an official government party known as ARENA and an official opposition party called MODEBRAS. Naturally, ARENA dominated Congress, and so when Castello Branco decreed that the next President would be elected by Congress, the opposition finked out. That left the field to Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva, 64, former War Minister, leader of the army's ultra-conservative "hard line," and by far its most powerful general. Nominated in May by ARENA, Costa e Silva became the only candidate for President...
...actors are plainly demoralized. Quinn, who plays a head-shaven Kublai Khan, just sort of sits there on his throne looking like Yul Brynner with a nasty case of jaundice. Welles, who plays a Venetian savant, is all dressed up to look like Leonardo da Vinci, but then he queers the pitch by muttering something about a navigational device he calls an "astrolobe." Horst Bucholz, who plays the acrobattling hero, obviously doesn't have the thighs for this sort of work, but he makes up for that with some of the niftiest karate ever seen in medieval Persia...
...Supreme Court's school-desegregation decree have white Southern racists resorted to such brutish mob violence as the terrorism that greeted school opening in Grenada, Miss., last week. A neat, small (pop. 12,000), outwardly placid county seat deep in Faulkner country, Grenada (pronounced Gren-ay-da) had been simmering with racial tension ever since the James Mer edith protest march trooped through town last June...
What bothers MODEBRAS most is next October's indirect presidential election. ARENA'S candidate, former War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva, seems certain to win, since the balloting will take place in Congress where the government party has a large majority. MODEBRAS demands direct nationwide balloting for the presidency, but ARENA is not yet prepared to put its popularity to such a test. As a result, the opposition has decided to embarrass Castello Branco by refusing to enter a presidential candidate. Says one MODEBRAS member: "Any sort of opposition candidacy would help the government present itself, particularly...
...Vieira da Silva...