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...naked from handcuffs, and a fourth inmate was badly beaten when he resisted similar treatment. The quartet sued their jailers for damages, and last week a federal-court jury awarded them $2,000 each. Three-quarters of the total is to be paid personally by Jail Lieutenant Ernest Barbosa and the rest by Guard Donald Brogden. In a joint statement, the inmates' lawyers refrained from trumpeting about a major precedent and said simply: "The verdict shows that prisoners are human beings. Brutalization of prisoners will not be tolerated by members of society...
...BARBOSA DE OLIVEIRA...
Punctilious Protocol. Rogers had an even more awkward time in Rio de Janeiro. There he waited for three days before flying to the capital of Brasilia for an official welcome. The reason: his counterpart, Foreign Minister Mário Gibson Barbosa, along with President Emílio Médici and the rest of Brazil's top officialdom, was away on a visit to Portugal. Protocol dictated that Rogers could not see anyone-or leave Rio -until Barbosa returned. He could easily have arranged either to stay at home or to fly back...
...Hubbard doll intones a litany of all the beauties of the motel room that she owns, conjuring up memories of the garish comic horrors of the journey through a Sahara of motels in Nabokov's Lolita. Into this room tromp a man (Conrad Fowkes) and a woman (James Barbosa) looking like plaster casts with comic-strip blow-up heads. They proceed to demolish everything in he room, and at the height of the carnage they scrawl foot-high obscenities on the walls, some never before presented on the U.S. stage. It is an allegory on U.S. inner violence...
Planning Ahead. The strong measures have brought wounded howls from many Brazilians. But most businessmen are no longer in love with inflation and are ready to go along. "Inflation," says São Paulo Industrialist Paulo Quartim Barbosa, "is an illusion of grandeur and a guarantee of catastrophe." As for foreign investors, they were busy dusting off all the expansion plans pigeonholed while Goulart was in power. Willys-Overland do Brasil, the country's largest automaker, plans a $30 million expansion, Volkswagen is investing another $21 million in its São Paulo plant, Argentina's Bunge & Born...