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Inflation In Brazil Two-Sided.

“By CLAUDE E. “ERBSEN

-i* RIO.“ DE JANEIRO .-(AP)— |

How' you look at Brazil's <con: otinuing inflation Copends on: where you sit. j

The working man is grumbl- | “Ang -as., orice increases. - his earnings and “feutralize a | recent: raise in the minimum

wage. :

With the cost of, living up 18.7,

Per cent since January and 4,4

—per_cent in April alone, the con- ]

sumer is finding it increasingly hard to make. ends meet. . “Industry, on the other hand is experiencing a small boom, arsi expanding despite tight credit. ““We.- can’t. keep. up. with. or- ders,”’. says a top official: ‘of a| business _m a-chine company. “We plan to double production | within the year to catch up with

Otlier - businessmen echo" _his | ords. errr

oi ;0OKS TO-RECORD :

The iautomobile ‘indus- try, stuck with thousands .of- cars at--this time last year, is looking forward to: a record

countries: in Latin America.

In Sao Paulo, the industrial | capital, power consumption is | up, about ‘seven per cent. In- | tome tax collections in the state” are expected to surpass last year’s. by 80 per cent.

‘The--government;-claims—that during. the first quarter. of the | ‘year it ran up a ‘deficit of only 42,000,000,000 -cruzeiros (about $22,000,000.

The—semi-officiat- Getulio Var= |

~ gas Foundation. says there is no y

\ threat of unemployment, and

‘that the demand for skilled and ff -

semi-skilled. labor—ishigh.- |

But _the— supply: of... unskilled workers outstrips. the demand. | Newspaper ads offering mini- | mum salary jobs draw as many as 5 applicants for a single opening.. Many offer to work il- legally for” Tess“ than the 84,000-*

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RECESSION BUILDS UP Last year at this -time ,a,Te-- cession was building up. “Heav-. lly overstocked . industries were | orkers while

tc. clear. their chan and ware- | houses. ee - While: “some economists _Pre- | “Aierea HOT Bi “thi year, it has failed to materialize | Bo far. . _The household appliance. _in-

dustry. in Rio de Janeiro suf- | ;

ftred a minor setback: earlier

_this’ "year, but recov? hed | 2

“quickly.

Credit for consumer financing |

ls still high. So is short-term | credit. for business.

With. tight enforcement of in- | come. tax Jaws .a-further- reduc-

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- expected through tlie year, cou- pled with: an‘ increase in the

amount of money available. for financing of — proj- ects, i a

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LONDON §(AP)—The United States. “is planning to reduce, its garrisons in Western Europe to -one division by the early 1970s,

The Times says. ;

The story by The _Times’ ~ Washington correspondent...sgys- “the realization of this ~ objec- tive will complete the massive-| reorganization of the American | military . establishment begun | by Mr: McNafhara, the defence |

“The new model army will be’ a. large.strategic: réserve - ‘based

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-—-pquipped-with the new-targe-air~ transports now: under construc. | tion to fly divisions to any part of tHe world,

“Other big overseas garri- | j sons, in South Korea and Pan- |

INCREASE PLANNED “Only--in-Viet-Nam,~where::the- war is @xpected-to Tast ‘another ndive. years, -will--therebe-a--siz- able increase. ww troop strength.

“At present; there” are 275,000 J

troops there (Viet Nam), ra- | ther more, than “officially .ac- | knowledged here, and” this is to | he increaSed to 400,000 by the | end of” the year: Ne

“There - are also tentative | plans to raise this to 500,000 by next spring and there. is talk of

an army of 750,000 by the end E

of_1967."" | The. Times concludes: ; “Mr. McNamara—has decided that the cost of maintaining a | jarge standing- army in Europe

“Feign exchange. ’ “He has also clearly devised a that future military, demands in | Asia atrd perhaps: elsewhere. res. _ Quire the concentration of much of the -armed forces of the | United States. °

“The future, delivery. of the. #.-

- new’ air. transports. only makes its possible’-to think of reduc- ing forces in Western Europe to one ,division. wet

“The days of the (U.S.) 7th Army, the most modern. and |

‘professional army ever to have | been maintained abroad “peacetime, are--numbered:**

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