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Ramos & Co.'s avowed reason for keeping Cafe Filho out of the Presidential Palace was that he was suspected of gol-plsta sympathies. But Cafe Filho insisted in a press interview that, far from favoring an anti-Kubitschek golpe, "I have always been determined to see to it that whoever is freely elected takes office . . .
My removal was a simple grab for power, as happens in South America. But this is the first time that it was taken away from a sick man in a hospital bed." State of siege or no, he added, he intends to go on seeking a court ruling that he is the true constitutional President of Brazil.