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Above all, there was the Pandora's box of pressing economic problems left by out going President Juscelino Kubitschek: an $80 million payment due to private investors on Feb. 1 (Quadros' first full day as President), rampant inflation, soaring deficits in the budget and foreign trade.
"Jânio Quadros will not have to busy himself with an art treasury but with an empty treasury," commented Correio da Manhã acidly. "The people wanted Sao Paulo's former governor as President, not a Florentine dilettante." Brazil is getting worried; it does not want to be a country without a man.
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