1.
CU PAN ALONG MILITARY CHIEFS TO PRESIDENT MAZZILI SEATED AT TABLE.
0.17

2.
LV PRESIDENT MAZZILI SPEAKING.
0.23

3.
SV DITTO.
0.27

4.
TV THE PRESS.
0.30

5.
CU PRESIDENT MAZZILI SPEAKING.
0.38

6.
GV DITTO.
0.44



Initials AA/N/AW/PC AA/N/AW/BB



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Background: ON SATURDAY ACTING-PRESIDENT RANIERI MAZZILI HELD A MEETING WITH MILITARY LEADERS IN THE WAR MINISTRY IN RIO DE JANEIRO. AFTERWARDS HE GAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE AND ANNOUNCED HIS CABINET. THE MINISTERS HE NAMED WERE: JUSTICE AND EDUCATION: LUIZ ANTONIO DE GAMA E SILVA; WAR: GENERAL ARTHUR DA COSTA E SILVA; NAVY: VICE ADMIRAL AUGUSTO RADEMACHER GRUNEWALD; AIR: BRIGADIER FRANCISCO DE ASSIS CORREIA DE MELLO; FINANCE: OOVIO GOUVEIA DE BULHOES, FOREIGN AFFAIRS: VASCO LEITAO DA CUNHA: LABOUR: ARNALDO LOPES SUSSKIND.

UNDER THE BRAZILIAN CONSTITUTION SENHOR MAZZILI, AS PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS MUST ELECT A NEW PRESIDENT TO SERVE THE REMAINDER OF SENHOR GOULART'S TERM.

THE SEVEN STATE GOVERNORS, WHO SUPPORTED THE ARMY COUP WHICH CUSTED PRESIDENT JOAO GOULART ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY (SUNDAY) THAT THEY WERE RECOMMENDING CONGRESS TO ELECT A NEW PRESIDENT EARLY NEXT WEEK.

SPEAKING TO REPORTERS THE GOVERNOR OF GUANABARA, ONE OF THE SUPPORTERS OF THE COUP, SAID THAT BRAZIL WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A CRISIS WHICH WOULD NOT END UNTIL CONGRESS HAD ELECTED A PRESIDENT "AND A GOVERNMENT THAT IS STABLE AND HAS A COHERENT POLICY".

HE HAD TOLD SENHOR MAZZILI THAT THE BEST THING HE COULD DO WORLD BE TO FIND A NEW PRESIDENT "AND THEN GO BACK TO THE CHAMBER OF THE DEPUTIES WITH OUR THANKS". HE THOUGHT THE NEW PRESIDENT SHOULD BE A MILITARY FIGURE.