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Brazil Leader Caught In Left-Right Struggle
University Daily Kansan
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
Back in April, 1962, when Brazilian President Joao Goulart paid a state visit to the United States, a Brazilian newsman pleaded:
"Give him a chance. He is trying to be a friend."
DURING THE two years of his presidency, Goulart's chief difficulty has been that in the extremes of Brazilian politics, he has been forced to walk a tightrope between right and left. And in the last two weeks there have been definite signs that the rope is becoming frayed.
On both the extreme right and extreme left, Goulart was a man without a friend. Complicating the already chaotic state of affairs in South America's largest nation was the fact that maneuvering already has started for the presidential elections scheduled for October, 1965.
This week Goulart's minister of education, Paulo de Tarso, quit in what was interpreted as a leftwing protest against Goulart's "opening toward the center."
IN RIO DE JANEIRO, capital of Guanabara state, Gov. Carlos Lacerda, militantly anti-communist and an avowed presidential candidate, accused unidentified authorities "directly linked" with Goulart of plotting to assassinate him.
Lacerda freely has predicted total collapse of the Goulart regime.
Whether or not another man might have done better, it must be admitted that Goulart's position has been an almost impossible one.
When the United States bailed him out early this year with a pledge of more than $400 million in aid, it was on the promise that an austerity campaign would at least slow down Brazil's galloping inflation and that
tax and land reform progt ans would follow.
Instead, inflation jumped nearly 50 per cent in the first eight months of the year. Labor unions attacked Goulart for his resistance to wage demands and conservative and right-wing elements in Congress effectively blocked land reform.
AMONG HIS critics, Lacerda has been the loudest.
The enmity between the two is of deep-seated origin.
As a newspaper editor in Rio, Lacerda was a constant critic of President Getulio Vargas, leader of the Labor Party and political mentor of Goulart.
Goulart considers Lacerda at least indirectly responsible for Vargas' death.
In 1954, Vargas followers tried to assassinate Lacerda, an event which 'ed to Vargas' own suicide.
As governor of Guanabara state, Lacerda has established a good record of building schools, clearing slums and pressing public works. Mandatory wage increases and a "13th month" of extra pay has in general kept workers quiet.
LACERDA EXPECTS a swing to the political right and will use his record as governor to help his presidential ambitions.
As for Goulart, there are signs that he is working toward cooperation with the middle-road Social Democrats of former President Juscelino Kubitschek. Kubitschek is an amiable medico who has no personal enemies. It was he who led Brazil into the forced-draft industrialization which plunged it so deeply into debt.
Kubitschek also is a presidential candidate for 1965.
KU Half-way to Goal In United Fund Drive
KU's participation in the Lawrence United Fund Campaign is progressing well, said Capt. Richard Gruber, KU chairman for the drive. "The results to date have been very gratifying," Capt. Gruber said.
Half of the $10,000 KU goal was reached Thursday morning. Capt. Gruber said that while the results have been good, the latter half of the campaign drive is the difficult part.
The goal set for the Lawrence campaign is $72,900. The drive ends Oct. 22.
Money received from the drive will be distributed to thirteen charity agencies.
Anyone wishing to contribute to the campaign can do so by sending a check or money order made out to the Lawrence United Fund Campaign, to Capt. Gruber at the Military Science Building. Capt. Gruber said all donations will be acknowledged with a receipt.
Plastic Surgery Material Passes Important Test
NEW YORK—(UPI) The synthetic material newly favored by plastic surgeons for a particular beautifying operation sought by some women has passed its most rigorous safety test to date.
BUT SCIENTISTS are not unanimous in believing all polymers so chemically inert that not one could cause cancer, and even if they couldn't do it chemically they might mechanically—by irritation, Drs. Dunaif, Stubenbord and Conway said in reporting to the technical organ of the American College of Surgeons.
And so they implanted discs cut from polyetherurethane sponge into the abdomens of $132^{\prime}$ female mice, beneath the mammary glands. Two discs went into each mouse, for a total of 264 discs.
For one year, which is more than one third of the normal mouse lifespan, the animals were left to their own devices in their comfortable cages. In that time 28 died naturally. The remaining 104 were killed and subjected to meticulous microscopic examination.
The scientific testers found it has no potential for causing cancer when embedded permanently in living tissue. This result was not ultimately conclusive because the testing had to be done in mice rather than in women.
IN THE WORDS of the scientists, the operation is "augmentation of the mammary gland." The material is artificial sponge of varying pore sizes made of the plastic, polyetherurethane.
The testers were Dr. Charles B. Dunaif, Dr. William T. Stubenbord and Dr. Herbert T. Conway of the New York hospital Cornell University Medical Center. They took the assignment because, in their opinion, polyetherurethane has never been thoroughly tested as a possible cancer-causer.
Not one had developed a cancer at the site of implantation or anywhere near a site.