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...main fodder of music videos and celebrity interviews. Often derided as a vapid, immature channel for rap-and- rock vidkids, MTV tackles serious problems in segments that range from three minutes to theme weekends. Promising viewers "free your mind and the rest will follow," the five international affiliates -- MTV Brasil, Asia, Japan, Europe and Latino -- cover issues like safe sex and the environment, once deemed too sensitive or boring for kids. Result: a following that comprises the same youths who rarely read a newspaper or watch their parents' TV news...
JORNAL DO BRASIL, BRAZIL: "A link has been established between Yeltsin and ((Defense Minister)) Grachev: each one needs the other to hold on to power...
...disputes that the youngest President in Brazil's history -- he is 40 -- has shaken up his nation as has no other recent chief executive. Hurrying to create "O Brasil Novo," the new Brazil he promised during his campaign, he has reduced an 84% monthly inflation rate to less than 13%; axed some 100,000 employees from the government payroll; and begun to halt the destruction of the country's greatest resource, the Amazon rain forest...
Instead, the Cubans shipped in a small arsenal. On March 9 a Cuban transport plane landed in Brasilia carrying 100 passengers and crew members. According to the Rio daily Jornal do Brasil, there were also ten tons of weaponry aboard. At first the Cubans tried to convince the hosts that the cargo consisted of medical supplies. When the Brazilians insisted on an inspection, they discovered machine guns, grenades, an antiaircraft gun, even missiles...
...Rumania, first class. Ceauşescu has refused to permit Soviet troops to be stationed on Rumanian soil and has opted out of Warsaw Pact plans to counter the new NATO weapons by installing Soviet missiles in Eastern Europe. The Rumanian leader told the Brazilian daily Jornal do Brasil last week that his country "is determined not to accept any kind of nuclear weapons on its territory...