Army tanks, trucks and armored cars rumbled into downtown Rio one afternoon last week; they dutifully halted at red traffic lights, then rolled on to carry out their orders. Some 600 men armed with rifles, bazookas and machine guns surrounded the Presidential Palace. A housewife on her way to market glanced at a cluster of soldiers manning a field gun, then turned to a bystander and asked quite matter-of-factly: "What, another coup?"
It was not another coup, but a sequel to Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott's bloodless "preventive revolution" (TiME, Nov. 21). Last...
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