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...nation majority-which together pays only 14% of the U.N.'s dues-lacks the clout to follow through. Its leaders are well aware that the current diplomatic moves toward détente have taken place outside the U.N. Brazil's Ambassador to the U.S., J.A. de Araujo Castro, spoke for many Third World leaders recently when he observed, "It is a fact that the U.N. is becoming irrelevant on matters of peace and security, and runs the risk of being converted into a sort of international institute of technology or into an ineffective chapter of the International...
...they will. So will racial, religious, ideological and even emotional considerations. No one representing either of the superpowers or their closest allies has a chance. Yet a candidate must pass muster with both Washington and Moscow-the "Directorate," as Brazil's Ambassador João Augusto de Araujo Castro calls the superpowers...
...Frontier. In recent years, foreign investors have together bought more acreage in Brazil than the combined territory of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The three biggest foreign owners are the British-owned Lancashire General Investment Co. (2,460,000 acres), J. G. Araujo Ltd., in which Texans are said to have an interest (1,977,000 acres) and Indianapolis real estate man Stanley Selig (1,519,000 acres). Not all the land buyers are speculators; many hard-working American farmers are among those who have gone to Brazil to reap the rewards of a new frontier...
...which everyone knew the rules. While the basic issues of that war remain, and the U.S. denies that there is a real detente, the pressures that bound free nations together for mutual self-protection no longer seem so great. Says Brazil's Foreign Minister Joao Augusto de Araujo Castro, whose own nation has caused the U.S. any number of headaches: "With the marked relaxation in world af fairs, the rules of the international game are changing-no doubt...
...back to us again two months later, they were as good as the wheels we had been importing." Two years ago, when Willys decided to 'produce the all-Brazilian 2600, it still had no designers. To do the job, the company tapped a 28-year-old architect, Roberto Araujo. Says Pearce: "This is his first major effort. I think it's good...