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...little impulse leads to another. Police stormed into the campus of Brasilia to arrest five students wanted for "subversion." The cops cracked heads as they moved from classroom to lab. Rising in Congress to protest the police conduct, Márcio Moreira Alves, one of the few remaining opposition Deputies, proposed a public boycott of the Independence Day military parades. Duly insulted by this, the Ministers of the Army, Air Force and Navy then moved, with President Costa e Silva's assent, to cashier Alves for abusing "his political rights." To some observers, it looked like the first step...
Fleet & Fiery. Top prize of 40,000 zlotys ($1,667) went to Argentina's Martha Argerich, who won by an eyelash over Brazil's Arturo Moreira-Lima. The Polish audiences, who packed Warsaw's splendorous Philharmonic Hall for each session of the grueling three-week contest, took issue with the judges, awarded their longest, loudest ovations to 24-year-old Edward Auer (fifth) from Los Angeles, the first American ever to gain the finals in the prestigious competition for young pianists (age limit: 30). Auer captured the audience's fancy with his bashful manner...
...Mistake. Three weeks ago, "Bulletproof" Perpétuo's luck finally failed. His downfall began when a convicted murderer, "Horseface" Manuel Moreira, got a parole "by mistake" and, once out of jail, shot a close colleague of Perpétuo's. Enraged by the bureaucratic sloppiness that released Horseface in the first place, Perpétuo dropped everything and went after the killer. Though the rest of the force was stymied, he had a good lead within two days. But while he was waiting in a bar for Horseface to show up, two cops from another district wandered...
...crowed Goulart. There were plenty elsewhere. Food-hoarding speculators pushed the cost of living higher still, and the cruzeiro was down to almost 600 to the dollar. Off to Washington, on the same route as that taken by Argentina's Alsogaray, flew Brazil's Finance Minister, Walther Moreira Salles, to seek still another stretch-out in his country's $3 billion foreign debt...
...last Brochado da Rocha found 13 "nonpolitical" ministers acceptable to everyone. The two strongest members of a lackluster Cabinet: Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos, who held the same post under Janio Quadros, and Walther Moreira Salle, Brazil's leading banker, who holds over as Finance Minister...